Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20151010231236/@comment-3293219-20151016161053

Eric sat on his chair beside his lover, hands put together, mouth burried in them as his shimmering eyes staired into the darkness, doing his best to ignore the Priests as they tended to Mathias' body...

'He died peacefully in his sleep' they told him as if that's supposed to make him feel better, strangely enough, it didn't, it just made him angry. It meant that he couldn't be there for him, couldn't hear his final words or couldn't say anything to make his passing easier.

It was that mixed feeling of frustration and hopelessness that made him despair, his family and Mathias' family, the people of this shit hole town, they all did nothing but sit on their hands, waiting for him to be molested and killed.

It pained him to imagine him having to go through all of that alone, being powerless to stop it, being unable to even observe, though he doubted that would make things better. Everyone had betrayed him, his family, his friends... they were all riddled with the same apathetic disease. Paralysed, when it came to doing the right thing.

The Nord couldn't stand the thought of returning home to his sloth surrendering family or looking Mathias' sister in the eye, knowing that it was his fault that she lost her Brother and her best friend on the same day.

Battleborns, Graymanes, Whiterun, Skyrim... Fuck it all, it was all worthless to him, the Nords spoke of honour and courage but when push comes to shove, they're weak and timid. He wasn't a Nord, he was better than that...

Perhaps it was the lack of sleep or perhaps it was the emotional distress of losing the one person who knew him well but Eric was quick to make up his mind. He snatched his bow and slowly rose to his feet, slinging his quill over his shoulder.

He glanced back to Mathias one last time, his face obscured by the old priest, tending to his husk. He didn't need to be here for the funeral as he was there for him in life, when it truly mattered.

Everyone else can rot...