un: grimm

[hagrides]

My roommate since I arrived in Lunatia one year ago, Lobco, has gone home. The apartment is terribly quiet without her, even though she was never the loud type. Strange how that happens.

Will you remember what has transpired here when you return? Do you wish to remember?

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[hagrides]

Fate is cruel. I have given up on cursing it long ago.

[wearingguess]

Simply cursing it is not exactly what I propose.
This cycle did not come into being spontaneously. Nor is it infinitely sustainable, unless the lives of these fallen kingdoms are being manipulated behind the scenes, too. Think about it... If what you say is accurate, then if ever there comes an era when no worlds are falling into ruin, your line will die out for lack of sustenance. Then, far into the future, if they do start to decay, then no one will be left to consume the pain and all will be wasteland forever.
Or does your Nightmare Heart also have some way to ensure there is always a fallen world somewhere?
The Great Flow of fate is supposed to be about evolution... about cycles that may repeat, but progress a little further every time, so that all life can move together into the future we create. An endless repetition of sacrifice sounds more like stagnation...

[hagrides]

...You sound like a dear friend of mine. 'A song that never ends is no song at all.'

[wearingguess]

I think
A song should last as long as there are those who wish to sing.
But no chorus is worth more than each voice within it.

[hagrides]

I am willing to sing. No matter how the song may have started, I do not regret or fear my duty.

[wearingguess]

But you were not there when the song began, and you never had any influence on its melody. Even if you feel yourself to be truly willing... if your entire life has been lived in the Nightmare Heart's service, was there ever any real possibility you would feel otherwise? Did your ancestors intend for you to have a choice in the matter?

Do you intend for your child to have a choice in the matter?

[hagrides]

I would not think less of them for deciding to end the cycle. Before I am the Nightmare King, I am their father.

Yet it is true what you say, that they and I have lived with the knowledge of what was expected of us our entire lives.