The air of the once peaceful town was black with smoke and carried the putrid stench of death. The slaughter had ended hours ago but Felix remained there, unmoving since his fight with the village’s guardian. The man had called him there because a stranger prophesized that Ferro would destroy the town, and like a fool the Fallen hero followed the instructions that had been sent to him.
The battle only served to prove Felix’s newly formed philosophy: people don’t need protecting; they need to be culled and ruled. Even when they have the chance for peace they go out of their way in search of conflict. He wouldn’t allow that to happen any longer, though, and as he strode through the destruction he had wrought on the world, Ferro felt no pity or anguish. He felt nothing at all as he looked upon the charred and bloodied remains of a toddler. It was better to die young then grow up in a corrupt society.
It was only the power of his craving that shook the former hero from his melancholy. The beast was awake again and in need of sustenance, but in the remote remains of civilization that he was now standing over there was very little chance of finding a shot of morphine. Addiction can’t be reasoned with, though, and as the gnawing hunger grew Felix started off North in a bit of a rush. Had he been thinking clearly, he might have comprehended the significance of what he had just done; had he been thinking clearly, Felix might have realized that he was hurting more people than he knew.
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