Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24736819-20140908004713/@comment-5583506-20140911205224

"This is exactly what I feared would happen", sobbed Ran'Jinro as he saw Kashmira pack her bags. "Your father's sacrifices have been for nothing! He gave everything to make sure that you would live a happy life here."

"And yet I haven't", said Kashmira, seemingly unmoved by his tears as she readied a backpack. "I have never been happy here, Ran. There were too many people like Jah'Rakal here when I grew up, all hating on me for being the one I was, and it turned me into the one I am."

She shrugged. "Goes to show you where most of the Vul must be coming from, huh? From the very halls of light, darkness is born."

"Don't say such things!" he said and wiped his tears on his sleeve. "Maybe I... maybe I can speak to Kavari! Maybe he can..."

She put a hand on his shoulder and smiled. "No. This is it, Ran. It feels good to be rid off all this. To be rid of Jah'Rakal and the rest of them. The only one I will be missing from this place is you, old man. You were the only one who were there for me. The only one who could actually see through my cry for attention, who could see past my feigned smiles. The only one who could see the mask I was wearing to pretend that everything they said behind my back didn't bother me at all. Until I couldn't even manage to hold that mask up any longer to hide the fact that this place... with all its people... were smothering me... The only reason I put up with their bullshit was in the hope that I someday might be avenging father. Yet that day never came."

He nodded in understanding. "So... what... what will you do now?"

She raised her shoulders. "I don't know. It's kind of exciting. Having grown up here in this prison I barely know anything of what they do beyond these walls."

Ran'Jinro embraced her hard and tried his best to hold back his tears. "My child... I don't want to see you leave. It is... breaking my heart."

"It will break mine if I stay here", she responded. "When I think about it... If my father had just been an ordinary Master with no affiliation to the Vul, and if the other apprentices had been kinder to me when I grew up, and if the training hadn't been so hard, would it... would I have been different today?"

"Maybe", he said. "Maybe. It seems there is no talking you out of this?"

She shook her head. "No. I will have to thank Kyrie for being the trigger of all this. She actually helped me to see how this society ruined my potential chances to a normal life."

Ran'Jinro didn't say anything else, but stopped in the doorway. "I will be reclaiming your sword from Jah'Rakal. That man has no right to it. It should be on a wall along the swords of all the other great Masters."

She merely nodded.