“But for us? The songs, they never talk about what is left after all that glory and death. We are left. I am left with a kingship I never wanted, and an example I can never live up to, and a people who feel ashamed for not following their king into certain death. You bear the scorn of the people who blame you and your kin for something they did not dare to do, and you carry the weight of an Oath initiated and sworn by one who has long moved on.” He shakes his head. “A heroic death is the best we can hope for in this time and place, and I am not made to be a hero.”
It rings true and hurts all the more because of it.
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Date: 2016-04-19 04:03 pm (UTC)“But for us? The songs, they never talk about what is left after all that glory and death. We are left. I am left with a kingship I never wanted, and an example I can never live up to, and a people who feel ashamed for not following their king into certain death. You bear the scorn of the people who blame you and your kin for something they did not dare to do, and you carry the weight of an Oath initiated and sworn by one who has long moved on.” He shakes his head. “A heroic death is the best we can hope for in this time and place, and I am not made to be a hero.”
It rings true and hurts all the more because of it.