"Immortality is a double edged sword. You don't die, but you don't have an end when you're trapped. You think Heaven of all places doesn't understand how to make someone regret immortality?" Red Son asked, the venom still in his words.
"He was imprisoned for centuries. Alone. Tortured. If he wasn't being harmed physically, he was left to stew in silent darkness. Do you think someone goes through that unchanged? Are you so naive as to think just because he could beat near anyone in a fight, he could take five centuries like that unscathed? He spent less than fifty days in a furnace and was changed and you thought he'd be fine after so long?"
Red Son stalked forward, glaring up at Azure Lion. "Trapped. Unable to do anything, but suffer. Then he's released of the mountain and he thinks finally, finally he could be free...only to be put on a leash. And you know, at least when its a mountain, you can think its a mountain. Of course its hard to escape from a mountain. It makes sense. But when its just a band of gold? It messes with you. Its so small. It seems like absolutely nothing. Except it doesn't break. It doesn't relent."
And his gaze is still angry, heated, but there is also a distance to it and his words. "You know you can be so powerful. You know few have a chance to truly stand against you. But then something steals away all your thoughts, all your breath, brings you to your knees, no matter how you claw at flesh, chip away at bone, it will not stop. Even if you were to remove that part of your body, it will still return when you heal. Centuries under a mountain and finally he could move, and he was still not freed. What did you expect him to do, Azure Lion? To reject the monk and be punished by Heaven directly, or go with the monk in the hope that maybe the human will have mercy when he has never been given any by those above?"
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"He was imprisoned for centuries. Alone. Tortured. If he wasn't being harmed physically, he was left to stew in silent darkness. Do you think someone goes through that unchanged? Are you so naive as to think just because he could beat near anyone in a fight, he could take five centuries like that unscathed? He spent less than fifty days in a furnace and was changed and you thought he'd be fine after so long?"
Red Son stalked forward, glaring up at Azure Lion. "Trapped. Unable to do anything, but suffer. Then he's released of the mountain and he thinks finally, finally he could be free...only to be put on a leash. And you know, at least when its a mountain, you can think its a mountain. Of course its hard to escape from a mountain. It makes sense. But when its just a band of gold? It messes with you. Its so small. It seems like absolutely nothing. Except it doesn't break. It doesn't relent."
And his gaze is still angry, heated, but there is also a distance to it and his words. "You know you can be so powerful. You know few have a chance to truly stand against you. But then something steals away all your thoughts, all your breath, brings you to your knees, no matter how you claw at flesh, chip away at bone, it will not stop. Even if you were to remove that part of your body, it will still return when you heal. Centuries under a mountain and finally he could move, and he was still not freed. What did you expect him to do, Azure Lion? To reject the monk and be punished by Heaven directly, or go with the monk in the hope that maybe the human will have mercy when he has never been given any by those above?"