Memoirs: Self
Nov. 23rd, 2005 03:13 pmMob mentality.
I wanted to blame that. It would be easy to do so; there had been many of us, after all. I tried, and, for a while at least, I succeeded. Long enough to retrieve the robes that had brought me to the Crossroads in the first place. Long enough to try them on at the Inn, with the crowd still outside. Long enough to summon the magic of my hearthstone and return to the cottage to accept the truth. The mob had granted the ability and opportunity, but the motivation had been purely revenge, purely mine.
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I wanted to blame that. It would be easy to do so; there had been many of us, after all. I tried, and, for a while at least, I succeeded. Long enough to retrieve the robes that had brought me to the Crossroads in the first place. Long enough to try them on at the Inn, with the crowd still outside. Long enough to summon the magic of my hearthstone and return to the cottage to accept the truth. The mob had granted the ability and opportunity, but the motivation had been purely revenge, purely mine.
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