06-25-2025, 07:54 PM
flitting in between things but, consider this as well - Rafayel keeps choosing to be personally selfish.
he has no problem with murder and vengeance. he kills who he wants to for reasons that he deems worthy, and ignores targets he's not interested in.
but he won't kill her; he loves her no matter what she does. and he doesn't love his people enough to override that.
the Deep Sea wants her dead and her heart back in Lemurian hands and control. The Sea God has been tasked to do precisely that, with the weight of the Deep bearing down on his emotions. but Rafayel keeps slipping out from under what ought be an imperative compulsion. how? how does a single Lemurian, no matter how contrary, subvert the will of an elemental force that takes him over like a tsunami?
he has no problem with murder and vengeance. he kills who he wants to for reasons that he deems worthy, and ignores targets he's not interested in.
but he won't kill her; he loves her no matter what she does. and he doesn't love his people enough to override that.
the Deep Sea wants her dead and her heart back in Lemurian hands and control. The Sea God has been tasked to do precisely that, with the weight of the Deep bearing down on his emotions. but Rafayel keeps slipping out from under what ought be an imperative compulsion. how? how does a single Lemurian, no matter how contrary, subvert the will of an elemental force that takes him over like a tsunami?
