They've always been few in number, and greatly scattered to the wind already when the Order wasn't fractured. But to be reduced to three, terrible in its gravity and great in the potential for abuses to run rampant. As if they weren't already. It serves to remind him that now, it's even more imperative for their dedication to their duty to hold fast.
The sobering realization nudges something of a confession out of Aleron. "I did grow to appreciate the great honor bestowed on me, though as a boy I was quite the angry idiot about everything." To be precise, he threw himself in wholly to the Seekers in an initial childish belief that it would some how let him 'beat' his sister at something. Being a better person. Or more important than what frock to wear and planning parties. "If I hold any regrets now, it's that I allowed duty to chip away at the very little time I had with Mirielle."
But none of that is really truly what's eating him, or even unreasonable to regret. Most people cannot see what they have with them and appreciate it until it's gone.
"I saw her in the Fade."
And that, he leaves to hang in the air, for Malcolm to consider and connect the bits of what's really hounding him at the moment.
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They've always been few in number, and greatly scattered to the wind already when the Order wasn't fractured. But to be reduced to three, terrible in its gravity and great in the potential for abuses to run rampant. As if they weren't already. It serves to remind him that now, it's even more imperative for their dedication to their duty to hold fast.
The sobering realization nudges something of a confession out of Aleron. "I did grow to appreciate the great honor bestowed on me, though as a boy I was quite the angry idiot about everything." To be precise, he threw himself in wholly to the Seekers in an initial childish belief that it would some how let him 'beat' his sister at something. Being a better person. Or more important than what frock to wear and planning parties. "If I hold any regrets now, it's that I allowed duty to chip away at the very little time I had with Mirielle."
But none of that is really truly what's eating him, or even unreasonable to regret. Most people cannot see what they have with them and appreciate it until it's gone.
"I saw her in the Fade."
And that, he leaves to hang in the air, for Malcolm to consider and connect the bits of what's really hounding him at the moment.