[He says it quietly, wanting to avoid getting Apollo even more worked up. The old Nahyuta would have given him a verbal lashing for even thinking of threatening the Holy Mother, but in truth, he isn't angry; he has far more patience for his old friend than that. Really, he's both touched and somehow unsurprised he'd be willing to go to such lengths to protect him once again.
Still, perhaps he shouldn't have said anything, that substance and getting caught up in the moment making him go too far in confiding his own pain. He had, after all, borne it alone these long years, he could continue to do so. But now he has, he feels obligated to explain.]
The Holy Mother's forgiveness is infinite, even to the lowliest of sinners. But it must be earned through action, not taken as a given. So, too, would it would be an insult to those I harmed to never acknowledge my responsibility to them.
[It's not as simple as saying his actions were justified and leaving it at that. Nor is it just a worry about his ultimate fate in the afterlife -- which was never at the forefront of his mind, otherwise he would never have put himself through all that in the first place. He goes on--]
As regent, I cannot be unaccountable like my predecessor. Instead, I must be an example of change and repentance to the people of Khura'in, so that the wounds of the past may be healed.
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[He says it quietly, wanting to avoid getting Apollo even more worked up. The old Nahyuta would have given him a verbal lashing for even thinking of threatening the Holy Mother, but in truth, he isn't angry; he has far more patience for his old friend than that. Really, he's both touched and somehow unsurprised he'd be willing to go to such lengths to protect him once again.
Still, perhaps he shouldn't have said anything, that substance and getting caught up in the moment making him go too far in confiding his own pain. He had, after all, borne it alone these long years, he could continue to do so. But now he has, he feels obligated to explain.]
The Holy Mother's forgiveness is infinite, even to the lowliest of sinners. But it must be earned through action, not taken as a given. So, too, would it would be an insult to those I harmed to never acknowledge my responsibility to them.
[It's not as simple as saying his actions were justified and leaving it at that. Nor is it just a worry about his ultimate fate in the afterlife -- which was never at the forefront of his mind, otherwise he would never have put himself through all that in the first place. He goes on--]
As regent, I cannot be unaccountable like my predecessor. Instead, I must be an example of change and repentance to the people of Khura'in, so that the wounds of the past may be healed.