Thar'Zul-Vekar still looked broken. Even with the truth revealed, with their vengeance extinguished and their pain shown in front of those who understood it, something in the god's eyes didn't come back.
That spark they once carried as a guardian of life and balance Erend and Eccar saw in that memory had dimmed. They stood there with a kind of sorrow that would never truly leave them.
Some things, once shattered, could never be made whole again.
Erend and Eccar didn't say anything at first. They just watched the god, understanding in a way what great loss could do to someone.
This was the kind of pain that didn't go away with words or even truth and left scars on the soul.
How could you come back from something like that? To be betrayed by someone you trusted with your entire being. To lose your world because of them. And then, to discover they had never meant to betray you at all, that they had been used by something even worse.
