Chapter 476: The Paths We Refuse to Walk
"How is it that you think she and I remind you of the goddess and Dolion?"
Orion's question lingered in the room long after his voice faded.
Eldric watched him quietly.
For a moment, it almost seemed as though he was choosing his words with care.
"Sometimes," Eldric said at last, "resemblance does not lie in what a person does."
Orion's brow furrowed.
"It lies in how a person moves through the world," Eldric continued calmly. "In the choices they lean toward. In the way they protect what they believe in. In what they are willing to break themselves for."
"Dolion trying to take the goddess's power," Eldric went on, "was not the beginning of who he was. And it was not the only thing that defined him."
His gaze drifted, unfocused.
"He was not only a man who wanted what was not his."
Eldric looked back at them.
"He was a man who belonged to someone long before ambition consumed him."
