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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephtys" data-source="post: 3540111" data-attributes="member: 31780">[sblock=DT]Barok looks on at the scenario, awed and frightened at first, but soon more thoughtfully. He knew it was nothing but a harmless test, an illusion or a trick of the mind, but it looked so real. Nikolos had only freezed up as his mind was hijacked, why would his own situation be any different? It was a test, and to succeed he need only do the morally right thing. And yet, what was morally right in this situation? If the child existed only as a magically created figment of his own mind it had no value, moral or otherwise, while his own life and his own service to Dorinthia had value to many. Maybe there was an element of risk here, and if there was why would he die to preserve the existance of a piece of an illusion? But would the ancients have deviced their test to allow for anything but stupid and blind self-sacrifice? For the most obvious act of mindless good? He grins, drawing his dagger. It didn't matter, he wouldn't bend for their will, submit to their values. He was himself, let them judge him for that or not at all."Sorry kid." He stops the child, "Grownups first." Handing the boy his dagger he turns and walks trough the portal. Before entering he turns his head and looks back. "Avenge your people, die like a man and maybe some god will take pity on you. My own war lies elsewhere."  [/sblock]</blockquote>