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“It is not too late to reconsider your actions… It doesn’t have to be this way, Bloodspiller. This is madness! If you hope to achieve recognition among us by feeding off of my Bounds, you are foolish. The Three would never allow you to ascend in such a way! I am warning you, Caedes. Concede, and let the O’Harren girl live in peace. This war you’re waging won’t end in your favor, and I will do what I must to protect the girl. Banishment be damned. This is your last warning, old friend.

I will not hold back…”

“What’s foolish is your faith in the Bound, Deathbringer. You hold her in such high regard for a mortal. Yet, what you fail to see is that she is like all. Corruptible, impure. Expendable… Has your punishment made you weak like them? Have you forgotten who you are compared to them? Why waste your energy on protecting her?

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Foolish…

There is no stopping what comes next. This is beyond my recognition now. This is about making her bleed. Making her suffer before snuffing her out. Before she was just an obstacle. Now, with your encouragement, she’s a target. And I like to obliterate my targets. In ways that make them beg for death…

And trust me, Mortis.

When I am through with destroying her very soul,

She will beg for the end…

And you’ll only have yourself to blame for her demise.”