"I think that's the point," Rhiow said. "To keep you here, in a state of stagnation. One you think is normal - if more drained of life than usual - so that you don't realize the need to wake up from it."
She looked down at the stone of the battlements, focusing on the grain of it so she wouldn't have to look him in the eye when she admitted, "Without Life to preserve, my own Oath is feeling a little superfluous as well."
There was a ringing silence in her ears as she said it, and a low growl at the edge of her awareness that was the Whisperer warning her of the dangers of that line of thought. Rhiow shook her head hard, her ears flapping.
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She looked down at the stone of the battlements, focusing on the grain of it so she wouldn't have to look him in the eye when she admitted, "Without Life to preserve, my own Oath is feeling a little superfluous as well."
There was a ringing silence in her ears as she said it, and a low growl at the edge of her awareness that was the Whisperer warning her of the dangers of that line of thought. Rhiow shook her head hard, her ears flapping.