Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-28009263-20170702193612/@comment-29637681-20171013194727

If anything somebody would really be surprised that Cinder managed to get along with ADDER, of all people. You wouldn't expect such polar opposites to cooperate, but they do.

Or, rather, did.

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That night Cinder and Wraak, with assistance from Glory, go find Adder. Eventually after scaling one of the cliffs at the Granite Quarry they both find him.

He's sitting at the edge of the cliff, looking down at the world below. Below him was a fifty foot drop, as well as a patch of cacti and a tar pit.

"Adder...Don't leave us!" Cinder tries to reach out to him. "Please! I-I know you're better than this!"

"Please stay!"

He gets up and he shivers. He's not crying. He's not drunk, or angry, or distressed, either. He's dead.

Not quite dead; he could still see, he was properly functional, but his mind was—

"Forgive me for this."

Adder jumps up and lands behind Wraak, stabbing him. Now the real fight begins.

"Every day, we all tried fighting for a lost cause, for justice, for ideals...Until one day, it vanishes."

His voice keeps shaking, even in his emotionlessness. "But I just knew that after the end, when we're all in Hell, we'd all be happy? We wouldn't have to deal with the pain, right?

"Heh...That's a joke. This is what happens when people consider us jokes. We're NEVER going to be happy, not when I'm around...This creature was supposed to be ruler of the world after Dmitri passed on, that old loon named Kitsuraptilikrahuluk. I betrayed them...I betrayed you...I can't let go of my past...And it's our fault. Why didn't you just let me die on that day, when we could have been free of the world's suffering?"