His only light Druig

14

AMAZON

-Druigs pov-

"How is she?" Sprite walked to where I stood, by the side of my light.

"Why do you care?" I answered coldly. My hand rested on the cheek of my cora. My sweet cora.

"She saw Ajak didn't she?" She asked and sat at the chair next to her. I looked at her not showing any emotions. Just cold.

"Yes, the last time this has happened was many many years ago when she connected to a deviant. She never saw their memories though. Maybe because this deviant was different, with Ajak and gilgamesh in its system. I don't know what happened." I look back down at my cora, her skin cold to the touch. I bring my hands behind my back and step back.

"When will she wake up?" Sprite looked concerned.

"When she is ready. I only put her mind to sleep. She needed to rest." I opened the door to exit out of the hall we were in. Sprite followed behind me.

"We are doing a service for gilgamesh, by the river. Make sure you come please, Thena is broken." Sprite spoke and left without another word. Walking to the familiar river that held many memories I held on to for years. 

I stand by the lake as my heart pounds, not in fear, not in pain, not in worry. But I'm regret. If I didn't let my emotions get to me, cora would have been here safe with me. I failed to protect her.

I watched as Thena spread Gilgamesh's ashes in the lake and felt a presence come behind me.

"When I left, and when cora came with me. I thought about taking over the minds of every human on this planet." I spoke as sersi stood by my side. Simply her name made my heart ache.

"Violence, fear, greed, all gone" I finished.

"Why didn't you?" Sersi asked. I softly smiled knowing my reason.

"Cora." I looked down and smiled.

"Cora is the reason I am here. Her love for the humans pushed me to want what's better for them as well. It got to a point where I wanted to control everyone but she, she told me not too because without their flaws, they wouldn't be human." I quoted her. Remembering that day, her laugh, her smile, the way the sun beamed down on her making her eyes shine.

"Please druig. You can't stay here anymore. It's not what she would have wanted." Sersi spoke and I turned to face her.

"How do you know what she would have wanted?" I asked.

"She loved the humans druig. And this planet. You know deep down what side she wants to choose. We may not have been the best people to her at the end but we need to come together. The deviants are trying to keep us from killing their own kind. They have a conscience now. That makes them more dangerous. You saw what that did to cora."  I let out a cold laugh.

"No sersi, that makes them us. Don't you wonder why Ajak never let her connect to the deviants? Why she always got upset at the slight possibility? It was because what happened today could have happened before. She saw the deviants being murdered by us. She saw Ajak being killed. She won't be able to forget that sersi. The deviants didn't do this. Eternals and deviants, we are nothing but arishems children but you are asking me to take control of the mind of a celestial I do not have that kind of power."

"We'll need phastos." As sersi spoke I looked back at Thena then turned to the building where my cora rested.

"Well good luck. He gave up on humans a long time ago." I told seri and walked back to check on my cora.

The next day we moved cora and brought her with us as we searched for phastos.

Sersi and ikaris went to talk to phastos as I stayed back looking after cora, her skin still cold to the touch. Pulse slow and steady.