Northstar Vale aranea

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germanicus saw no reason now to try and compete last-words against a man who stood in his own land.

he stood for a long moment only regarding arsenio and then he turned.

the truth of the red mercenary's words burned through him: all he had lost and those he had failed, gathering here. and while germanicus bid them well and truthfully so, knowing he himself had no vision had tormented him.

twisted now beneath the tongue of his one-time friend, the imperator departed for the final time.

his mind would replay every word of this discourse for days and days to come.