05-13-2020, 05:36 PM
Dorian glanced at his phone when he spoke again in the strange tongue. Swedish, interesting. Dorian couldn't help but laugh in agreement. Yes - that was for sure. He'd caused all his own problems first with Ana and then again with Nox. Which was the reason the rest of his problems had unfolded. Dorian had never expected his family to turn against him in favor of a boy they'd only known a few months.
"I could tell you all about the time I concocted a plan to marry my wife and her to father my child. And then how I later hired drives and pool boys for my wife's admiration before she settled on the steward of my house. But it's not what I did, or they did that drives me to drink tonight. It's the things I've seen. Men wielding power and monsters to their advantage, only to find out they walk again after you shoot them in the head three times. And a boy who is nothing but trouble sacrificing his own arm to do that favor I spoke of. You've met him, he leads a dangerous life all without my own. And I'm afraid he'll end up dead before he finds what he's looking for."
Even through all of the shit he had put Nox through the boy still worked with Domovoi. Even harder since the Ascendancy granted him priledges. And now he lost an arm - a fucking arm to the monsters. That was not a life Dorian had signed up for. Not even Martin could say he'd cut off his own arm for the cause. Dorian doubted most men would shoot themselves if they found out they could do what Nox did. And most wouldn't use it to hunt monsters. Power corrupts absolutely.
"I could tell you all about the time I concocted a plan to marry my wife and her to father my child. And then how I later hired drives and pool boys for my wife's admiration before she settled on the steward of my house. But it's not what I did, or they did that drives me to drink tonight. It's the things I've seen. Men wielding power and monsters to their advantage, only to find out they walk again after you shoot them in the head three times. And a boy who is nothing but trouble sacrificing his own arm to do that favor I spoke of. You've met him, he leads a dangerous life all without my own. And I'm afraid he'll end up dead before he finds what he's looking for."
Even through all of the shit he had put Nox through the boy still worked with Domovoi. Even harder since the Ascendancy granted him priledges. And now he lost an arm - a fucking arm to the monsters. That was not a life Dorian had signed up for. Not even Martin could say he'd cut off his own arm for the cause. Dorian doubted most men would shoot themselves if they found out they could do what Nox did. And most wouldn't use it to hunt monsters. Power corrupts absolutely.