oblivion [druig]

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Alright guys this chapter has some dialouge in spanish, but i'll write the translation in italics beside it just so you guys don't get confused. I was also aiming for a double update but this chapter is turning out to be a really long one so I'll keep it this way and then update two or three times tomorrow.

Hope you guys enjoy :)

PRESENT DAY

AMAZON RAINFOREST

AURORA

I have seen friends and people be murdered. I have been witness to thousands of deaths at the hands of Deviants and humans. I have seen empires rise and fall.

I've seen people sabotage each other, overcome by the need for power and money. I've watched as they've become thirsty for power–for control.

I've watched over the years, as if it were a movie, how people evolved and changed, leaving their values behind and becoming selfish beings.

I've seen them be born and then die of old age while I'm still the same.

Humanity is the most painful thing I have ever seen.

I've been betrayed and lied to. Hurt and beaten up so bad I could barely breathe.

And yet the hurt and resentment of watching them fall so behind on what their full potential could've been will never compare to what I felt when Druig left me.

I had to admit, our relationship hadn't been perfect. We'd fought and broken up a couple of times during the course of our years together–that was 222 years exactly– but we'd always come back.

Always.

It didn't matter what happened. Whether I'd been in the wrong, or he had been, one of us would eventually swallow their pride and go to the other, and then we'd be fine.

That didn't happen that time.

Druig was a prideful person. His beliefs were set in stone, and while we had the same values, there were still things we disagreed on.

I blamed it partly on having hated each other for so long. Part of me felt like sometimes that routine we'd had for so long rose up, and we'd end up bickering over the smallest things.

Still, we always managed to fix it.

Because as much as there was bad, there was also good

So much good.

We seemed to fit almost perfectly, always in sync and together. Druig was the only person I never seemed to get enough of. The one person I never grew tired of. He'd helped me grow and I'd made him see that maybe you didn't need to control people to let them be peaceful.

Sometimes, while I was in Africa after everything happened, I would wonder how he was doing.

How the village was doing.

I didn't like letting something get to me completely. Each and every empire I'd been in, I had been careful not to get too attached. I knew better than to love a place to my fullest extent because I knew that no matter how incredible it was, no matter how much I loved the people and the place and everything in it, I knew it would eventually disappear.

At the end, everything was temporary except me.

But this place.

This place was different. I got carried away. I made it my home. I really had no reason not to. Druig was here, and with his powers, he was able to make this place everlasting.