Chapter 72 - Habits?(1/2)
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Nielas Ellan, Medivh's father. Just like Nathanos killed his mother, Medivh's father also died because of him. In a sense, their experiences were very similar.
"What do you mean, Medivh?" Nathanos shouted, his eyes flicking back and forth between the Guardian mother and son. "You clearly know that I..."
"Does my meeting with my mother make you angry and sad?"
"Don't be so self-righteous. Do you think this can affect me?"
Looking into their eyes, Nathanos realized for the first time that he was feeling guilty. If he said that the warm scene in front of him did not change his mood, no one would believe it.
"Stop talking." Aegwynn stopped them, "We should go inside and talk."
It was a joy to be able to drink concentration tea in a dangerous swamp. But Nathanos felt on pins and needles. After being reborn, he lost his sense of taste, so he could only judge the taste of the tea by looking at the expression of enjoyment on Medivh's face.
Is it good or bad.
"My son was right to bring you to me, son." Aegwynn said to him, "I know your plight very well, and I can help you understand yourself accurately."
"I know myself better than anyone else." Nathanos clenched his hand holding the teacup.
"You can only see yourself clearly in front of a mirror, Nathanos. And that mirror is someone else."
The truth is often disguised as correct. Aegwynn's words left Nathanos speechless for a moment. He didn't think of how to refute the former guardian, so he had to drink the tea in the cup in one gulp and take out a way to learn.
The attitude of the person said: "Please enlighten me."
Aegwynn nodded slightly with satisfaction. She tried to touch Nathanos' left hand, but the latter retracted, and its owner looked at her doubtfully.
"Well! This hand is just colder than before."
Medivh coughed twice, "Mother, I think it's better not to be joking. Nathanos has no patience for wasting time."
"Thank you, you really understand me." Nathanos turned his head to the side with disdain, closed his eyes, and the only visible light in the room disappeared.
"Are you used to it?"
"What?" Nathanos thought he heard wrongly. Medivh's mother actually asked him such a question.
"Are you used to this undead driver?"
The sound of the tea cup breaking was heard, and the quilt with the scent of concentrated tea was sacrificed in Nathanos's hands. He couldn't help but stood up. He planned to leave this ghost place and find a place where no one would
Where to ask him this question.
"You still have not answered my question."
"Get used to it? Get used to being a dead person? Or get used to being a monster?" He roared, furious at Aegwynn. But in front of him, the two most powerful humans in Azeroth treated him very calmly.
Angry. To be honest, Nathanos suddenly felt a little frightened. He felt that all his reactions were in their plan, that's why they could be so calm.
"Medivh said you had no patience for wasting time. It's obvious that you now believe you are in such a situation."
"Is not it?"
Aegwynn shook his head slightly and smiled, "Why don't you change your mind like this? If you are willing to change, maybe you will sit down and listen to my opinion again."
The eyes of the guardian mother made Nathanos realize that she was also a person who was about to be buried. Once upon a time, he also thought that after everything was over, when his parents became gray-haired, he could always be with them.
Be around them and talk to them.
That kind of life was far away from him long ago. If he could still experience it... why not? Aegwynn spoke to him in a tone that was very much like his mother Daphne.
Nathanos finally relaxed and sighed, and he bowed to Aegwynn. "Please forgive me for being rude just now, madam. I...I just hate myself. I never thought I would become
Like this, I should..."
"Sleep in the peaceful underground?" Aegwynn interrupted and asked.
He nodded back.
"Ashes return to ashes, dust returns to earth. Fallen leaves return to their roots is indeed their final destination, but are you willing to do so? Aren't you ashamed? You still have unfinished business, and you still have unpaid sins. You just plan to carry the regret and pain with you.
Rotting in the dirt?"
The scene of the head being chopped off still makes Nathanos extremely painful, "I wouldn't have been like this."
"So what?" Aegwynn asked.
"I should have saved my mother, I should have stopped Alsace."
"But the reality is going against your thoughts."
The two people's eyes met. Even when he lowered his head briefly, Nathanos never avoided Aegwynn's gaze.
"So who is to blame? Fate?" Nathanos asked bitterly, eager to know the answer to this question. He hoped that Aegwynn could tell him that he was not to blame for any of this. Of course, if she said that it was not all his fault,
It's his responsibility, and he can accept it.
"How many people you can save has nothing to do with your ability, Nathanos." Aegwynn tried to hold Nathanos's wrist again as before, but this time he did not flinch. "One person's ability
No matter how great you are, you can't save everyone."
"I don't want to save everyone. I just want to save..."
"You want to save the person you care about most, right?"
"Now that you know what I think, I won't argue anymore."
Aegwin smiled, "You care about your family, you care about your lover, but why don't you care about yourself? Why don't you save yourself?"
This sudden question caught Nathanos off guard. It brought not doubts, but persuasion. Care about yourself? Save yourself? He never thought about it, because everyone knows that life and death are irreversible.
"Really...is it okay?" Nathanos couldn't help but ask.
"Who knows?" Aegwynn took a sip of tea, "I just haven't thought about it."
Medivh, who was sitting aside and listening, couldn't help but reveal a playful smile. But the smile quickly disappeared.
It was unclear whether hope was so slim, but Nathanos found comfort.
"Thank you, Lady Aegwynn."
The first three words in his words made the person he spoke of frown, "Why bother thanking me, kid? If it weren't for you sitting here, I wouldn't have anyone to talk to."
"I chat all the time." Nathanos pointed to his head, "There was a guy who kept nagging me after I was resurrected, and then assigned me various tasks. I was going crazy.
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"Speaking of which, I believe my child should have told you how to get rid of the Lich King."
Nathanos glanced at Medivh, "He said it. However, I'm not sure if I can seize the opportunity when it really comes. What should I do?"
"Observe, act, and give feedback. You only need to do these three things."
"It seems to be more detailed than Medivh. He just asked me to wait."
Aegwynn and Medivh laughed at the same time. The atmosphere was no longer serious and became warm. They discussed many issues, mainly Nathanos and Aegwynn were talking. Medivh was only responsible for giving his mother a teapot at any time.
The tea cup is full.
Their topics were varied, and some were brought up by Aegwynn, such as the spring of the Well of Eternity that Nathanos and Medivh took away from Mount Hyjal.
"This thing is too dangerous." Aegwynn carefully took the container Nathanos used to hold the spring water - his water bag. There were some runes on it.
"The Lich King will not turn a blind eye to this thing."
"This is where the trouble lies. It's unreasonable for Mother Nathanos to carry this thing with her. And if it is given directly to the high elves, I'm worried that the reshaping of the Sunwell will easily cause the demons on the Eastern Continent to rebel.
Attention," Medivh said.
"Then hide it for now." Aegwynn briefly said the solution.
They nodded at the same time, including Nathanos, although he really wanted to get the antidote that could relieve the addiction to Alleria as soon as possible.
"But where should I hide it?"
"Leave it to me," Medivh said to him, "I will hide it in a place that only you and I know. Of course, only you can decide how to use it in the end."
Nathanos pursed his lips tightly and said after a moment: "You'd better make sure you're safe."
"Of course!" Medivh's voice was stiff and rigid.
After solving a difficult problem, Nathanos asked Aegwynn in awe: "The topic just now has always been about me or things about me, Mrs. Aegwynn. This seems a bit unfair. Can you talk to me?"
Tell me about you, why did you come here? This is not a good place to live in seclusion. And you seem to have lived here for a while. The fields next to your house look like they have just finished harvesting the wheat."
"I'm waiting for someone, someone who can change my destiny. She's coming soon."
Nathanos was startled and asked suspiciously: "Who... can change your destiny?"
"I am no longer a guardian, child. There is no need to think of me as superior, and there will be someone who has a profound influence on them in everyone's life, right?"
"Yes." Nathanos agreed very much with this. He had seen many such people, such as Lothar and Turalyon being the best examples.
"You will also meet it." Aegwynn said again.
Nathanos smiled and disagreed and replied: "I don't know, maybe I have already met her." He thought of Alleria, and the smile of that female elf was always etched in his mind.
"Maybe not, but you will always meet. You will meet at a certain time."
"I hope that is the person who can save me. If he is, I can wait forever. For me, time has no meaning now."
These words brought the originally lively atmosphere to a freezing point. Aegwynn's expression changed, and his calmness turned into surprise and confusion, as did Medivh.
To be continued...