" This land has been at peace for decades now. What is there to wage war about?"
War. The word burns through my ear like fire. I have only read about it in history books and heard tales of it from the elders who heard tales from their elders. The land is peaceful because the Light brought it into a new age of prosperity and safety. There is nothing to wage war over.
"Have you just hidden in that little bubble of your whole life? As long as there is Light and hope there will be Darkness and greed. Power, Lilly..ana. There will always be a war over power."
"Who is waging this war? The Elders would have mentioned something of this to us. If there was someone we would need to be mindful of. They would never keep us in the..."
"Dark? Well I'm afraid they have, and you only have yourself to blame. You chose the path of the Light, a hypocritical, selfish theory that ignores the world around it whereas I chose a different path and became what you call a Mut. I chose to discover what was really happening around me."
His words rip at my heart. The part of me that had so long lived in the Light hated him, but the part of me that no longer believed felt compelled to tell him that he was right "Who is behind this so called war you believe is coming."
"I don't believe it's coming. I know it's coming. And the man behind it is..."
A knock at the door makes us both jump. A second knock, this time more urgent, makes Mathus stumble to his feet.
"Wait here and don't make a sound." He whispers with a sharp tongue as he leaves, closing the door behind him.
