Tav is quiet for a long moment. He thinks of Alfira, brave Alfira, who only wanted to travel with their party and write songs of their adventures. Brave Alfira who met a gruesome and bloody death at Tav's hand, one of her horns sawed off and used as an instrument of her demise. He'd wondered how, in those last moments, if she remained just as brave or if fear penetrated her heart as it lay open and exposed to the world?
His own fear stirs in his gut. What if they strip him down and he doesn't come back? What if he can never use magic again?
Or, much worse, what if he's re-made into the other version of him permanently? What if he comes out of this nothing but a rabid animal?
It makes his incarceration much more minor in comparison.
tw: some minor gore
Tav is quiet for a long moment. He thinks of Alfira, brave Alfira, who only wanted to travel with their party and write songs of their adventures. Brave Alfira who met a gruesome and bloody death at Tav's hand, one of her horns sawed off and used as an instrument of her demise. He'd wondered how, in those last moments, if she remained just as brave or if fear penetrated her heart as it lay open and exposed to the world?
His own fear stirs in his gut. What if they strip him down and he doesn't come back? What if he can never use magic again?
Or, much worse, what if he's re-made into the other version of him permanently? What if he comes out of this nothing but a rabid animal?
It makes his incarceration much more minor in comparison.
And Tav, for once, is stunned into silence.]