"Evil? Evil is 655Please respect copyright.PENANAkOsgDNN4Xg
subjective, my good man. What is evil to us might be perfectly normal to655Please respect copyright.PENANAnJwdeF3UpM
them. Who are we to judge what is evil or what is good?"655Please respect copyright.PENANABOlADeEYuX
Captain Rourke, trying 655Please respect copyright.PENANAr6gmSY5g74
to prevent a massacre on Rourke isle. His crew stumbled upon natives who655Please respect copyright.PENANAwmHSRksXYC
were sacrificing their own young. The quote was written down by one of 655Please respect copyright.PENANArgpapWcu18
his crewmembers.655Please respect copyright.PENANAW0m9btZb1G
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Seconds, minutes, days, 655Please respect copyright.PENANABM4qtfgMyc
months. Time passed. David could hear the sound of a lock, tick..tock, 655Please respect copyright.PENANAwJBKMHFWVn
silently going inside his own head. A 100 ticks, 500 tocks, more than a655Please respect copyright.PENANAHd8xgOSjam
thousand of tick tocks.655Please respect copyright.PENANA1iIi8ZK7ko
Finally David turned 655Please respect copyright.PENANAJZUxNM0qbg
away from his own reflection and the Darkness shattered revealing Jester655Please respect copyright.PENANAwc0P5jUPDE
and the grey sky, littered with various paths leading to damnation, for655Please respect copyright.PENANApNRvaDYSA3
what else could be the end, but that?655Please respect copyright.PENANAhyqGGavj7W
Jester himself had 655Please respect copyright.PENANAicwSfQEIUd
changed as well, at first David couldn't place him but then he knew. 655Please respect copyright.PENANAVtMrwABwZy
Jester looked like David. With eyes full of life and hope, no scars 655Please respect copyright.PENANADzBc7DSzpE
riddling that body, to David it seemed like a parody of him, but also of655Please respect copyright.PENANAnlsxI9iL7o
what he could've been if his life didn't turn the way it had.655Please respect copyright.PENANANTDD1ulw7d
"That last vision. What was it?" David finally asked, looking away from Jester.655Please respect copyright.PENANA5pzKmMcUcQ
"A vision of what could've been and a test." Jester walked to stand beside David, who still refused to look at him.655Please respect copyright.PENANAGbAK3POSJm
David didn't reply. He 655Please respect copyright.PENANAwZcNlpbidq
waited for Jester to continue by himself. "All you've seen was the truth655Please respect copyright.PENANAzlDBBNI6gG
and at the end I wanted to show you what destiny took away from you."655Please respect copyright.PENANAbP1rL41Ygi
"I don't believe in 655Please respect copyright.PENANAqA1PGTtssQ
destiny." Davids attention wandered as he saw two shadows, one big and 655Please respect copyright.PENANAf19vpCliJX
one small flickering in the sky until fully disappearing.655Please respect copyright.PENANAMmaEKsFOwD
Jester chuckled. "Just because you don't believe it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We're all just pawns in a bigger game."655Please respect copyright.PENANAuD6REacNfx
"The only pawn was me, letting you manipulate me." Surprisingly David didn't feel any anger towards the fact.655Please respect copyright.PENANA7W71ph3TAK
"And I'm a pawn of 655Please respect copyright.PENANABoNhdWMWm9
someone else, and that...someone is yet another pawn. And so it goes and655Please respect copyright.PENANAkdkw74Nlkh
goes." Jester appeared in front of David and grabbed his shoulders, 655Please respect copyright.PENANAj0NIlDnwgo
holding him in refusal to turn away from the truth. "I manipulated you 655Please respect copyright.PENANASQ45pTuD8r
so you can rise above being a pawn, above being a king or a player. I 655Please respect copyright.PENANAbdIv6Y3VPn
want you to rise above the game and destroy it, together with everyone 655Please respect copyright.PENANAeRBgSti9Vo
on the board. You want that aswell don't you?"655Please respect copyright.PENANAsdD497nZCW
Broken bottles, tears, a happy family flashed in Davids mind for a second and then it passed. "..Yes"655Please respect copyright.PENANAS6XxIiZiEf
Jester gave a sigh of relief. "Perfect, then..." Before Jester could proceed David interrupted him. 655Please respect copyright.PENANAz3BvjvpaXI
"No, first tell me why. Why do you want to die? Why were you there when I was born? Why...me?" 655Please respect copyright.PENANANhS9FRQD4m
"I've been dead for a 655Please respect copyright.PENANAS75LWccn6V
while now, this is just an echo of me. A fade ghost, whatever you want 655Please respect copyright.PENANA51NByx1sa5
to call me, my life is not my own..." Before Jester could continue his 655Please respect copyright.PENANAUYkSX5lB2V
form faded but then flickered back to life. "No...that's enough for now,655Please respect copyright.PENANACuuMyTdqRO
can't reveal everything. To answer your second question it was just 655Please respect copyright.PENANA4svsgperOu
luck, I was close by in the fade when you died and I attached myself to 655Please respect copyright.PENANACX7YmwZaOS
you. I guess that answers your last question as well, doesn't it? It was655Please respect copyright.PENANAW4rb4wZOdz
just luck."655Please respect copyright.PENANA3q9pGdlmTT
"If destiny exists, then it wasn't luck was it?"655Please respect copyright.PENANAYcNwBmK4FF
Jester laughed. "Such a 655Please respect copyright.PENANAfsPw1PUp06
narrow view, it'll change in time." He paused. "Destiny is not a narrow 655Please respect copyright.PENANAmLgLT0FeWu
path. Destiny is a wide road, a road that leads us to where it wants to 655Please respect copyright.PENANAHkhhF7rexO
go, yet on that road we can move. We can take a side path, we can 655Please respect copyright.PENANAnAxu6ac6Wk
stumble or stop and on that wide road there's definitely room for luck. 655Please respect copyright.PENANAcqweYznt5j
Do you understand now?"655Please respect copyright.PENANAfThwdrM9GL
"All I understand is 655Please respect copyright.PENANA02BHR0BRGE
that you've no idea what you're talking about." First Jester talks about655Please respect copyright.PENANAFKEQWlqKog
destiny as a player in a board game and now he defines it as a road. 655Please respect copyright.PENANAQm9osUQFSK
Can't he keep it to one metaphor.655Please respect copyright.PENANAIYqTl6cfcm
David sighted, this is pointless to get stuck on. "I'm guessing the artifact somehow helps with that?"655Please respect copyright.PENANAbp6kAPFIQc
Jester nodded. "Yes, it 655Please respect copyright.PENANAIuuPqhYqEv
will unite your material and ether body. Most of your scars and injuries655Please respect copyright.PENANAhJJWpCHuCo
will heal and you'll be able to travel between the realms at 655Please respect copyright.PENANABRQRe2YLMX
will...Might also do some other things aswell."655Please respect copyright.PENANAszg4Ew4Qrp
"Why not get it 655Please respect copyright.PENANAwpoI7T0eCm
yourself? If it lets you travel between" David waved his arms. "This and655Please respect copyright.PENANAsKXrpgSfNl
the real world, I'm sure it'd be useful to you too?"655Please respect copyright.PENANAsuPlgXYXHG
"I've no physical body, 655Please respect copyright.PENANAFR3nMvNhzF
the artifact might have effect on me but it might not. My interactions 655Please respect copyright.PENANAooen0I5WgK
with the physical realm is limited anyway, even if it does resonate in 655Please respect copyright.PENANA9abReiisjJ
the ether I'm not sure I'd be able to pick it up."655Please respect copyright.PENANAsGEaDhJJPJ
David shook his head, so655Please respect copyright.PENANAIQoX4R5dj3
many things he didn't understand, so many questions he still wanted to 655Please respect copyright.PENANAoq2l8pFFfl
ask. He took a good look at his own image standing in front of him and 655Please respect copyright.PENANAwV3pm1Rb4h
knew he couldn't trust Jester, after all, turns out, he never could 655Please respect copyright.PENANAqyv6amqDDB
trust himself. But he knew his path and knew where it would lead him.655Please respect copyright.PENANAkNWALqDmHc
"How do I find it then? What even is it?"655Please respect copyright.PENANAZ5E7Pv5WM8
Jester moved away from 655Please respect copyright.PENANAcrrUXrvAAF
David and snapped his fingers. David was plunged to his knee as a vision655Please respect copyright.PENANAIeT7v4nbk3
swam in his head. An isle, a cavern, a glowing dagger on an altar. 655Please respect copyright.PENANA7sdhglKLCK
"You know where it is now. But so do the other chosen. Couldn't be 655Please respect copyright.PENANA7MOZc4tAUP
helped."655Please respect copyright.PENANAk1EgeKVMVF
David shrugged getting up from the ground, it would make it harder but he'd find a way, he always did.655Please respect copyright.PENANAEcpNTobtMd
"I'll create a 655Please respect copyright.PENANA6ydFCFa8nL
distraction, use it to escape. I should be able to get the keys close 655Please respect copyright.PENANAATKjYFkuZn
enough for you to take them." Jester paused and looked at a distance 655Please respect copyright.PENANAqHB20HDk1M
where there were different lights flashing. "It's probably the last time655Please respect copyright.PENANAafgmDVy8y4
we'll speak like this. Good luck, David. Kill us all."655Please respect copyright.PENANAp8tBYyzZv0
David awoke, everything 655Please respect copyright.PENANA34335fNz2Z
hitting him at once. All the pain moving across his body, scars and 655Please respect copyright.PENANAZPtMaB6IGU
wounds burning as if they were just made. David barely managed to subdue655Please respect copyright.PENANAnVfkultirv
his scream. A scream of pain, but also of happiness, he finally had an 655Please respect copyright.PENANARKx1KEhBEI
objective, a purpose and he would accomplish it. That purpose gave him 655Please respect copyright.PENANAjJW9qRrTuy
the power and will to overcome the pain as he stood up.655Please respect copyright.PENANA4rwBeCbpaX
Looking around David 655Please respect copyright.PENANAvhjguJoJvS
could see new, still wet, blood stains on the floor, in and right 655Please respect copyright.PENANAxu5KOWsvux
outside of the cell. He imagined those were his. David tried grabbing 655Please respect copyright.PENANAkTjn1T8PRi
the cell door with both of his hands, to steady himself, but only 655Please respect copyright.PENANAmAH7o0scNt
managed with one as his left stump just brushed off the bars.655Please respect copyright.PENANAwOputotcDE
David could hear the 655Please respect copyright.PENANAsPudJcef7c
jailer walking across and stopped in front of David's cell. He began 655Please respect copyright.PENANAn0C13z4yfp
saying something but his voice was drowned out as an explosion shook the655Please respect copyright.PENANAgPDDE3qaCa
whole hallway. David stumbled, his grip slipping from the bars and fell655Please respect copyright.PENANARlIgXsR6x4
on the floor, barely staying conscious as the pain renewed. 655Please respect copyright.PENANAGzcIZXGBKp
Atleast he was alive, 655Please respect copyright.PENANAItRBw0MizK
which was more than he could say for the jailer, a puddle of blood 655Please respect copyright.PENANAcOUidAYQIt
forming around his head. David grabbed the jailers body and pulled it so655Please respect copyright.PENANAAliuC6xPb6
he could reach the keychain around the waist. It took some effort with 655Please respect copyright.PENANAljwi8jMY3G
one hand but David managed to finally reach it. Finding the correct key 655Please respect copyright.PENANAvBGBTV1OdM
and opening the door with body infront of it was even harder, but with a655Please respect copyright.PENANAu7nSQZQt8c
grunt of effort David was finally free.655Please respect copyright.PENANAIYzVSD2KYz
David heard a cough from the neighbor cell and could see a body covered in bruises and blood stirring. "Still alive, huh?"655Please respect copyright.PENANAdcVUUMaiaI
David recognized Gobs 655Please respect copyright.PENANAj0FTfkPc2S
voice if not the man himself. David thought about leaving him inside the655Please respect copyright.PENANAsyKwZLBAIy
cell, but after barely making a step he knew he'd need all the help he 655Please respect copyright.PENANAhG1dp0Vxk5
could get. He limped to Gobs cell and opened the door. David was hoping655Please respect copyright.PENANAtkDXSJwcj0
Gob would limp aswell, or atleast have trouble getting up, but the 655Please respect copyright.PENANAT5pTQL4vPj
infuriating man stood up as if nothing happened to him and swaggered out655Please respect copyright.PENANAI5RXtvIEv0
of his cell.655Please respect copyright.PENANANYKvIimGUT
"Well let's get to it." Gob said as he started searching the jailer, finding a pistol and a short sword.655Please respect copyright.PENANAP1y64HlzIt
"Did they tell you what 655Please respect copyright.PENANAZT1Cd9adQw
happened to Angela?" Gob asked, carefully heading down the hallway and 655Please respect copyright.PENANAWay0q4ca5B
leaning out of the only door leading into the ship proper.655Please respect copyright.PENANACrgiNbQMo5
"She's dead. At least that's what they implied." David answered, slowly following Gob.655Please respect copyright.PENANAndzrrFGXRr
Gob nodded and together 655Please respect copyright.PENANAIoDeXVgbLo
with David left the brig. The ship itself reminded David of the flying 655Please respect copyright.PENANAMc8C1DfnBY
fish, as fire and steam was raging all over the ship and some 655Please respect copyright.PENANACQLWcx9X0Q
crewmembers caught unaware were lying on the floor either unconscious or655Please respect copyright.PENANAzNJxRtCbS1
barely so.655Please respect copyright.PENANAnmBBPT77sU
They moved a short 655Please respect copyright.PENANAODHAanqRUv
distance ignoring the crew who didn't get in their way but still being 655Please respect copyright.PENANAqlKVnOwBc3
careful slipping from shadow to shadow. Or at least David try to slip, 655Please respect copyright.PENANAC5leR6ifd5
with the wounds he was much less graceful than he wanted to be.655Please respect copyright.PENANAoStpqwddVh
Surprisingly there were 655Please respect copyright.PENANAg500D1P8hZ
only a few soldiers who were out and about, and most were too busy 655Please respect copyright.PENANAyXY12yGgVc
trying to control the damage, so Gob and David managed to successfully 655Please respect copyright.PENANADjwtZuLAyR
avoid any fights while looking for a way out and by that they meant any 655Please respect copyright.PENANAKACtzh9oe0
hole big enough to lead them outside as they couldn't leisurely look for655Please respect copyright.PENANAu2dtcBRalB
the doors.655Please respect copyright.PENANALSoPHAYrH0
Luckily they managed to 655Please respect copyright.PENANAxT4Hh11rDx
find an opening, most likely created by an explosion as it was 655Please respect copyright.PENANA0PJQjsqTCr
surrounded by fire, that didn't dissuade Gob who jumped through the fire655Please respect copyright.PENANAXBd1W34Xpj
into the outside. David, taking a deep breathe, followed him. Luckily 655Please respect copyright.PENANAGZnKephHS4
he only got a bit singed as the sunlight hit his skin.655Please respect copyright.PENANA0bRVVg26nK
"Hey! Who're you!" A shout came from David's side.655Please respect copyright.PENANAPDOVwPOmAl
"Demon Spawn." Gob muttered and rushed the three soldiers with his pistol and shortsword.655Please respect copyright.PENANALMybogo2Ai
The guards were as 655Please respect copyright.PENANAPgU9UKbPgJ
surprised as David and didn't manage to react until Gob rammed his sword655Please respect copyright.PENANAoVngEAn3Mt
into the middle one's chest. Before the body even hit the floor Gob 655Please respect copyright.PENANA5Q5L2Z7Vf7
span around and shot the guard on the left with his pistol, as the man 655Please respect copyright.PENANAAYza1mdFU7
was just taking out his own weapon. However Gob didn't manage to stop 655Please respect copyright.PENANA86mIwRM4TJ
the last guard from stabbing him in the back. As the sword was taken 655Please respect copyright.PENANAQHz6w5i625
out, though, Gob quickly moved his waist and backhanded the soldier, 655Please respect copyright.PENANAAWnvv63KuL
causing him to stagger.655Please respect copyright.PENANAwk4NQUmwRA
That seemed to be the 655Please respect copyright.PENANAUourVdJNrd
last of his energy reserves as Gob finally fell on the ground. His 655Please respect copyright.PENANAaM3nEZbMU8
opponent, while still reeling from the blow took advantage and kicked 655Please respect copyright.PENANAgESp6AGord
Gob in the face, and kept kicking.655Please respect copyright.PENANAqh6oSAqlmO
All of that only lasted 655Please respect copyright.PENANAfDY9wo7wbz
seconds. David finally noticed his moment to act, as the soldier was 655Please respect copyright.PENANARzhO3kssQ6
paying attention to only Gob. Thus he sneaked behind the soldier, while 655Please respect copyright.PENANAdVaLTH4y8w
picking up one of the discarded swords, and stabbed him in the neck, 655Please respect copyright.PENANA7xXfdBwfOa
just like he stabbed his mother, at first the kicking continued but soon655Please respect copyright.PENANAwJDrXzncyX
enough the man noticed blood coming out of his mouth and neck. David 655Please respect copyright.PENANAEE2vL4B7Ma
pulled out the sword and pushed the guard back, who, having no strength 655Please respect copyright.PENANA3E4Vlk1ycM
left, fell down and bled out slowly.655Please respect copyright.PENANAheI05lVzz4
David looked down at Gob and offered him his hand. Gob refused it, instead deciding to pull himself up.655Please respect copyright.PENANAgFDWGcZkxj
"Thanks." Gob said 655Please respect copyright.PENANA6FO8rovQX0
gruffly, obviously unaccustomed to the word. "Now that we're outghg..." 655Please respect copyright.PENANAc9ti5rj7Vi
But his last words were drowned out by blood as he found a sword 655Please respect copyright.PENANAdQg0VbUHiN
piercing his neck.655Please respect copyright.PENANAz7X85EIHPW
"That's one promise 655Please respect copyright.PENANATUnl76IAFE
kept." David said as he pulled out his sword, watching Gob falling, his 655Please respect copyright.PENANApUq5tgQfYt
eyes slowly draining of all radiance. 655Please respect copyright.PENANAxhzwl6f65x
After the hulking man 655Please respect copyright.PENANAHbUuWbSxXx
fell David quickly collected more weapons and bullets. While the 655Please respect copyright.PENANAqbnzghY1CU
fighting didn't make too much noise, he didn't see a point in staying 655Please respect copyright.PENANA7rtmlp7gjG
near an enemy ship. Thus everything, he could carry, collected, he 655Please respect copyright.PENANAmmtueIhgT7
quickly proceeded to walk away from the ship, into the nearby forest. 655Please respect copyright.PENANAzjRuE3DjrY
His objective clear in his head and his will stronger than ever.
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