neo the baby slayer. (phonomania) wrote in nevermore_logs, |
Neoptolemus barely, just barely, resisted a sneer, out of what remained of his respect for this man he barely knew. His arms fell to his sides. "I did what needed to be done." It was no mantra to delude himself from what was real-- just the truth. Killing had never been for necessity. Killing, to him, had always been an act of release, something to get the adrenaline going, not unlike hunting animals. The Trojans had made it so easy to ruin them. Achilles might have taken Hector, but it was he who broke them. He took their king, who had, in the end, been nothing but a feeble old man. A useless coward.
The boy titled his chin up. "If I enjoyed it along the way, who can blame me? If I liked how warm their blood ran between my fingers, how loud they screamed, how they begged for mercy, would you tell me I was wrong?" His eyes flashed with what could've been irritation.
"They needed me. So I delivered them Priam's corpse, and the corpses of his children."