"Yes, maybe that would have been an act of mercy on our behalf. Their behavior is pretty foolhardy."
Pale fingers held onto the soul for a few moment longer and then sent it onward. It departed from the mortal plane with little fuss, and the trace of life he had cradled vanished from their senses.
He knew how frequently the humans misunderstood each other, and how eagerly they killed each other, and how fervently they hated each other instead of appreciating what a gift they had been granted just by being born and enjoying it to the fullest extent. That seemed so silly of them. Crouched down on his hunches, Pharos looks over at her, noticing her feet meeting air instead of the ground but feeling no surprise. His smile was pleasant and cyntic.
"No, it's not. But this world has a resting place for the decreased like any other. I cannot enter it, but I can guide them to it and let them in."
He straightened back up and moved on to the next bloodied body, prodding it softly with his toe of his sandal. The body's chest rose and fell faintly, signifying the continence of the heartbeat still thumping inside her. Pharos promptly lost any interest in the human, accepting that her time had not yet come and stepped over the motionless body to check the rest of them.
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Pale fingers held onto the soul for a few moment longer and then sent it onward. It departed from the mortal plane with little fuss, and the trace of life he had cradled vanished from their senses.
He knew how frequently the humans misunderstood each other, and how eagerly they killed each other, and how fervently they hated each other instead of appreciating what a gift they had been granted just by being born and enjoying it to the fullest extent. That seemed so silly of them. Crouched down on his hunches, Pharos looks over at her, noticing her feet meeting air instead of the ground but feeling no surprise. His smile was pleasant and cyntic.
"No, it's not. But this world has a resting place for the decreased like any other. I cannot enter it, but I can guide them to it and let them in."
He straightened back up and moved on to the next bloodied body, prodding it softly with his toe of his sandal. The body's chest rose and fell faintly, signifying the continence of the heartbeat still thumping inside her. Pharos promptly lost any interest in the human, accepting that her time had not yet come and stepped over the motionless body to check the rest of them.