Event || Melodies of Death

[melodiesofdeath]

Characters: Kalki and you.
Where: Aqures Ixen, 03rd District.
When: August 03rd.
Summary: As promised, Kalki is before the Crystal of Fire. Every character has the possibility to speak to her (or try to kill her). If you want to speak to her individually, please reply to the first thread! If you want to play out the conclusion, please reply to the second thread-- It is a lead-in to the next part of the Anniversary event and will be one single, big thread.
Warning: All of them.

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[melodiesofdeath]

A researcher, an avatar, a messenger, I suppose we are all many things.

[Obviously this wasn't a reply as detailed as he expected, but Kalki rarely did deliver outright replies.]

[no1]

An avatar.

[ It might be less than he hoped for, but more than he anticipated, given the circumstances. A small frown crosses his features. ]

And the will of your own? [ He pauses. ] The destruction we've witnessed, the battles that have been fought -- was it also your wish?

[melodiesofdeath]

In a sense, yes. [She paused.] But it was also yours, even if you don't know it yet.

[no1]

[ It sounds almost like a prophecy, one with a malicious intent to it. ]

We might be servants of the Crystal, but we were also the ones who had made the decision to stay and defend the city. [ ... ] To avoid further bloodshed, not encourage it.

[melodiesofdeath]

What if to avoid the death of a thousand, you had to kill one?

[She looked at him.]

To avoid the death of a million, you had to kill a thousand? To save all of existence, you had to destroy a world? When does it become wrong?

[no1]

[ The question strikes a chord in him, and it's with certain difficulty that he tries to maintain the eye contact. It's not merely a choice that he's familiar with, it's a choice he's made in the past, with all the others that are no longer by his side. ]

When one person takes it upon themselves to be the sole judge of human lives.

[ His voice seems quieter, somehow. ]

What makes you think there is no other way?

[melodiesofdeath]

Then be assured that I am no sole judge. I carry the will of all those who came before.

Heroes of Light have been summoned to this world for countless cycle. They have all tried and failed. They have exhausted all possibilities-- What makes you think there is another way?