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Kyriakos | Memory 8
8. The burning of her village ☀ (Significant Negative)
The memory starts off abruptly - immediately there's sounds of death, women and children screaming for mercy, men crying out in outrage and their own death. There's also the sound of laughter, as bandits run around lighting every building they touch on fire and slaying any who dare try to escape. They don't discriminate against who they kill with their blade.
Aurae is scrambling through all of this, a piece of wood in her hands nearly her size. She's crying and her clothes are covered in soot, and as one of the bandits try to stop her she hauls off and smacks him as hard as she can with her makeshift weapon, and ignores the sickening crack it makes.
She makes it just out of the village and to the cliffs overlooking her village, and climbs up them as quickly as she can manage, between sobs and stopping to watch her village's fate. She hits the main path and runs the rest of the way, and when she nears the top she calls for Maias' name.
When she reaches the top Maias is there to catch her as she trips, and she practically clings to him as he asks what happens and she tells him, that bandits have attacked and she can't find her parents. Maias plays concerned until she drags him to the edge of the cliff, in the hopes that maybe he'll see them where she couldn't.
He stops, though, and tells her that he's the one responsible. That, while they were kind to him, he couldn't allow such terrible place to continue existing. That, even if they had saved his life, that half-elves had no place in this world.
Aurae is too shocked to even say anything, and when she doesn't Maias continues, pleading with her to come with him and to leave this memory behind. She begs him to stop, that she loved him but she couldn't leave with him, to stop killing her people—
Maias is disappointed, but not nearly as much as he puts on. It's obvious in the utter lack of emotion in her face, and he reaches out to grab Aurae's wrist to tug her closer.
He tells her that they could've seen the world together, and that he could forgive her for what she was, but that he was left with no choice.
And with that, he pushes her off the edge of the cliff. The memory ends there.
What she learned:
- So. That's why she wanted to kill Maias.
- She's half-elf.
- The men burning the village work for Maias.
- She doesn't know what happens to her parents in her memory but it's safe to assume that they've been killed/died.
- This takes place not too long after the memory she has of meeting Maias.
The memory starts off abruptly - immediately there's sounds of death, women and children screaming for mercy, men crying out in outrage and their own death. There's also the sound of laughter, as bandits run around lighting every building they touch on fire and slaying any who dare try to escape. They don't discriminate against who they kill with their blade.
Aurae is scrambling through all of this, a piece of wood in her hands nearly her size. She's crying and her clothes are covered in soot, and as one of the bandits try to stop her she hauls off and smacks him as hard as she can with her makeshift weapon, and ignores the sickening crack it makes.
She makes it just out of the village and to the cliffs overlooking her village, and climbs up them as quickly as she can manage, between sobs and stopping to watch her village's fate. She hits the main path and runs the rest of the way, and when she nears the top she calls for Maias' name.
When she reaches the top Maias is there to catch her as she trips, and she practically clings to him as he asks what happens and she tells him, that bandits have attacked and she can't find her parents. Maias plays concerned until she drags him to the edge of the cliff, in the hopes that maybe he'll see them where she couldn't.
He stops, though, and tells her that he's the one responsible. That, while they were kind to him, he couldn't allow such terrible place to continue existing. That, even if they had saved his life, that half-elves had no place in this world.
Aurae is too shocked to even say anything, and when she doesn't Maias continues, pleading with her to come with him and to leave this memory behind. She begs him to stop, that she loved him but she couldn't leave with him, to stop killing her people—
Maias is disappointed, but not nearly as much as he puts on. It's obvious in the utter lack of emotion in her face, and he reaches out to grab Aurae's wrist to tug her closer.
He tells her that they could've seen the world together, and that he could forgive her for what she was, but that he was left with no choice.
And with that, he pushes her off the edge of the cliff. The memory ends there.
What she learned:
- So. That's why she wanted to kill Maias.
- She's half-elf.
- The men burning the village work for Maias.
- She doesn't know what happens to her parents in her memory but it's safe to assume that they've been killed/died.
- This takes place not too long after the memory she has of meeting Maias.