Chrysalis

Chapter 850

The shadow falls like clouds, like rain;

Creeping dread begins to stain;

Shudder the heart, freeze the brain;

Ring out the laughter, again and again;

Call of you lover, daughter, son;

Sinks into your ears, your will undone;

Forward you step, your soul is wrung;

Cannot resist, Gon has come;

Who can defy that fateful call?

Who can escape the shadows pall?

Forward you go, heedless to stall;

Into the depths to meet the fall;

Lament the brave and pity the meek;

None can flee the song of the freak;

  • Rinnidan children's rhyme.

that had long been dead was once again full of life. Not that anyone could tell looking at his face, of course, to the world at large he appeared as stone faced

dwelt on what had been lost. It had grown easier to bear over the years, but only a little. His acute awareness of how

papers scattered across his desk. Administrative work was the backbone of the Legion, and though he would rather charge into a horde of demons without armour on, the commander would do his duty and defeat the

after the members had been recalled from their postings during the wave was a monumental task. Thousands of soldiers and thousands more auxiliaries needed to be accounted for, equipped, fed, billeted and kept happy. Promotions, training, Skill development, Class upgrades, managing morale, all of it

his fist down on the

old comrade looked around the room as if expecting to see

For him to yell like that, something must be seriously wrong! As she glanced back to the face of her old friend and superior, she froze when she saw the hard lines of his expression. Though he always looked carved from granite, right now the commander appeared as if he was forged from Abyssal Iron! Knowing him for

wrong, Titus?" she demanded, using his name in a breach of protocol. "Is something

long moment where he took hold of his temper, Titus breathed out his tension once more,

to concentrate," he admitted as he waved a hand towards the piles of forms

your daughter out working hard in the Dungeon?" she grinned. "I know how proud

Titus frowned.

I'm proud, but that doesn't mean I want to hear gossiping amongst

when she was a young lass? Why would we?" the old tribune innocently

"Hmph," Titus snorted.

laid out her concerns. "We've seen her stumbling into camp once every few days,

Titus didn't blink.

she

the rest of

"There it is."

your daughter we're talking

was concerned, but that didn't mean he got

straight in the eye, "you don't know what it takes to succeed at that

insane!

her choices. She understands

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