neo the baby slayer. (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} phonomania) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} nevermore_logs, |
"Despair?" An emotion like that was foreign to Neoptolemus, but he knew that he'd caused it in others, and would continue to do so until the end of his days. He angled his head slightly.
"I knew my duty and who I had to cut down. I don't know who you think you're talking to, father, but I never knew despair from taking a life. Not fear, not guilt. Not regret. Do you want to know what I felt from every life I destroyed?"
The boy gave him a smile devoid of any mirth. His answer was obvious.