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Lady Star Whisper
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"How did you become part of the Knight Blades?"
"We searched for them. Ridarre and I were disheartened veterans. We had seen enough war to know that good and evil are relative. We asked ourselves what purpose life had, what fight was still worth fighting. Then, when we hit the trail of the Knight Blades, they approached us. They presented us with a new duty far above us and everyone else: To preserve the balance of the world. To give everyone a chance to live. The seven Knights circle their globe and listen to the voices of the world, then send their Blades to cut where it is needed."
"But then why lord Malto? How did he keep others from living? We have seen him do nothing but improve living conditions."
"He did so with the cost of their culture, Ridder. Their way of life, their traditions, the very foundation of their civilization were replaced with that what lord Malto believed in, and he enforced it with an iron fist. Perhaps he never meant harm, and he did believe that he was helping the people.. but the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
"But that.. That does not make the destruction of an empire, of a great man, a good thing."
"Ridder, it has been a long time since I stopped believing in good and bad. The Knight Blades even more so. They do naught but tend to the garden of life."
There is a long pause. I hang my head.
"It just.. It does not feel right, mother. Nothing does."
She gets up from her chair and brings her hands to my head. She brings her lips to my forehead, as she used to do when I was a child.
"I know, Ridder. You will grow to accept it."
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