The Promise

[Coroneljones]

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Hello once more, Eleanor,

How can one stand before a victory - A grand achievement - and feel naught but a void?

Where there should be triumph, there is disappointment.

[Butcher.]

Where there should be joy, there is a hollow feeling.

[Killer.]

Where there should be pride, there is emptiness.

[Warmonger.]

Perhaps there was no true victory.

Only compromise.

[Weakness.]

A surrender, in all but name.

[A failure.]

They wanted a monster to blame, of their own make, to hide behind.

[Perhaps I should have become such.]

Yet I never could have become it as they wished so.

[Do you feel like an example yet?]

You knew the truth of how my heart sings, kindred soul of mine.

Which makes the dagger of loss stab that much deeper.

At times, I think of giving up.

[Of heeding the call of that pit.]

To silence the shouting voices demanding I kneel.

[And the gaze between the stars.]

To rest at last.

[It sees me.]

But I cant stop now.

When I think of an escape,

[When I think of a release.]

I cannot help but think of all the reasons why I should not.

Someone dear to the heart, that I must live so she must not break.

Someone under my care, that I must live for, so they may have hope.

Someone under my guidance, that I must live for, so they are not lost.

I may break,

I may shatter,

I may be destroyed,

Yet my soul must remain unbent and unbroken.

I allow myself to suffer,
So they do not.

I must be their light.

I must be their hope.

I must be their guardian.

I must become worthy.

And I must save them all.

[Are you proud of me?]

For as much as the heart yearns to be reunited with its better half, I must carry on with my duty.

For as much as I long to see that smile once more, beyond my memories, I must carry on enduring.

For as much as I wish to say those three words once more before you, I must achieve our dream.

[I love you.]

And for as much as I want it to not be so,

I know that we shall not see eachother for as long as I uphold my vow to you.

Only in my last failure will I find you.

[I miss you.]

I cant stop now.

I made a Promise.

[I'll do anything.]
[Until I can no longer.]

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