The Dying Moon ( Feyd Rautha )

Chapter 36

"This is it then?" Eidan had asked, "the beginning of an end?"

"Seems so," Caros had said, taking to the cockpit and flicking on his ignition. An action of second nature, hands gripping the wheel and eyes locked ahead. "Say goodbye to your planet as you knew her."

Eidan had nodded, stepping off the fuselage to the Alica that stormed back from the pillar. Five minutes, all the time they had before the Corrino ship would plummet.

"You don't have to fight," Eidan said, "I would never make you."

Caros had smiled, "You know you would never have to ask with your words. It is my duty."

"I owe you everything," Eidan sighed.

Caros's smile dropped as the hum of the engine roared. It shook his hands, lowered his head and jolted the wheels into the rim. "We'll make it out of this, and I will always be beside you to help keep your merit in check."

"You treat me like a nattering wife," Eidan joked.

Caros laughed, "I do occasionally wish you were a girl."

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War felt like shame, like every star had pulled itself across the skies to form a weight atop Eidan's shoulders. He felt the pull of the droplets on his cheeks, a mans blood, a woman's tears. They compiled themselves with each other and mixed in his sweat. Wrong, evil, pain, so very much pain.

To kill a man was not an easy task of the mind. It racked at his psyche and formed the image of a cruel man that he ventured so hard to escape.
To end a bodies thrust forward, a simple feat. More than one dropped beneath the hooves of his horse never to walk again. He saw them pile as the Galicine strode forth. Saw the fallen shake and seize as their souls transposed into the ether in search of another beginning.

Eidan told himself that it was a means to an end, a natural action, a beautiful composition. He was doing an awful thing that would culminate in goodness. A forfeiture of the immediate positive to destruct the negative.

Hawk stood over a fallen woman, bent down and he waited for her to take a bite. He watched carefully as she lowered her sword, extended the woman's neck and grazed her cheek. He watched, as instead, she closed the soldiers eyes and continued fighting.

Eidan careened his horse over the cliffs of the fighting pit, stepping over men that attempted to breach it. Feyd Rautha screamed as he swung amidst the Corrino's, his pale skin withstanding the weight of ten men, ending them all. He too did not take a bite from their throats, but would not stoop himself to closing their eyes either.

There was goodness in existence, as well as evil. A counterbalance that kept the constellations above, the star crafts from plummeting and the ocean at low tide. For the first time in too long, he considered that there were also beasts that owned the in between. Souls that raged against the light and held darkness at bay with careful synchronicity.