11-23-2019, 04:42 AM
[align=center][div style="width:70%; text-align: justify; padding: 1px; font-family: helvetica; color: #140D32;"]As Rin looked down at him, Lemy replied with a grin and a wink. He stayed quiet as he listened to the oath and processed it. He refrained from snorting and kept his face clean of any negative thoughts; the smile on his face unchanged and friendly as ever. "Do I gotta repeat all of that? Oh well, yep! I promise to protect the community, to trust my fellow members, and uphold the values of community and justice. I'll be so good, they'll make me a saint!" He said smoothly, punctuating his words with a pound of his chest.
Promises this; promises that; what good were words when betrayal lurked in everyone's hearts? Lemy was not a child anymore; he no longer carried that optimistic confidence in the words of others. Everyone who could hurt him would if given the chance to. 'I promise,' were words that delayed that process. And when everything went wrong, they were words that could be uttered through clenched teeth.
He stared up to the Magna with his dead fish-eyed gaze and waited with that same smile.
Promises this; promises that; what good were words when betrayal lurked in everyone's hearts? Lemy was not a child anymore; he no longer carried that optimistic confidence in the words of others. Everyone who could hurt him would if given the chance to. 'I promise,' were words that delayed that process. And when everything went wrong, they were words that could be uttered through clenched teeth.
He stared up to the Magna with his dead fish-eyed gaze and waited with that same smile.