He eyed her as she spoke. The words stung, not because they hurt his feelings but because there was some truth in what she said. Dark, twisted, but truth none the less. He looked at her for a bit longer, obvious discomfort mirrored in his eyes.
"What am I thinking? Show you my anger?" He stated each question and allowed them to settle before continueing. "Very well... Dark Star." The name suddenly came to him, he didn't know why, but it he knew it was her's. In reality the name had come of his connection to Gorbrack but inadvertently and without his knowledge. As point of fact, Validrir was unaware that such a connection between them even exsisted. It was possible that even Gorbrack did not know of it. "How much do you love Kalamos?" It was a rhetorical question, Validrir could see the love she held for the summoned being. Normally he would not be able to read someone of Star's power so easily, but the love she held for Kalamos was so bright, so tremendous and all encompassing, that it could not be hidden from his eyes by the hatred and power of all the demon lords in exsistance.
"I can see it, like star swelling within you. A wonderous thing that grows with ever building passion, even as the one you love is gone from my world." His dreams began to take a different shape, the depthless black twisting as an image of Kalamos emerged from the empty space. The shade of Star's love walked forward, his hand outstretched to her. "I felt that once, a love so great that it seemed I would be swept away with it." Another image materialized from the gloom, a woman. She was a little taller than Star, but not much. Her hair was was dark brown and hung in long curls about her face and shoulders. Her skin had a light tan from many days out in the sun, her eyes were blue and full of life and kindness. Validrir gazed at the woman with a deep and terrible longing, she smiled brightly at him in return.
"So vast was my love that I thought it impossible for it to grow, yet grow it did. Even after she died." The Kalamos vanished into the nothingness from wence he came before he could reach Star, the woman soon followed. "My dear Clara." He whispered before looking to Star. "But our situations are not the same. My love can not be summoned back to me. You say my dreams have become dark, but you understand little. There has long been a dark corner of my mind where I banish the troubles of my life. I was not born into exsistance as a god, but was once human. I have regrets, doubts, losses that I prefer not to think about. I will never see the woman I love again, not in all of eternity! Can you claim as much! I am responsible for millions of people and their safety! I made the decision to live as a god without understanding what it meant! Without knowing the far reaching consequences!" Validrir was shouting now, his anger had built up to the surface as Star had wanted. The darkness of his dreams had vanished as bright flames lept up all around them. Fragments of different memories and imaginings combined to create the shattered world around them. Through the flames could be seen the farm on which his love had lived, the land melting into the battle field on which he'd fought long ago. The twisted forms of demons clashed against knights and soldiers of men. Bandits rode across the farm and set fire to the little house. A woman ran out of it and was screaming at them. One galloped by and scooped her up. The woman was Clara, her face stricken with fear. Behind them the the glorious light of a god shone out. There stood Talingue over a kneeling Validrir. And then finally there was Kalamos who stood with a blade buried deep in his chest. He stood there, his mouth open as if trying to call out, but he was choking on his own blood.
"Here they are! Look at them if you wish Star, For these are those theing which plague me most!" He advanced on her the flames growing more furious with each step. "then there is you, the high demon princess! Daughter of a dethroned devil, who died odly enough after his heart had begun to soften. You wanted to know what I was thinking, well this is what I am. Here is the twisted madness from which I hide! Is this what you wanted? Are you happy with what you see? I have suffered as you suffer for longer than you've been alive!" Validrir was right in front of her now and staring down at her, the flames reflected in his gaze. "What do you say Dark Star?"
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