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Challenge #04459-L075: The Strength of Hope

Does it really matter what you pick? You sensed it haven’t you, the other choices you made runs parallel to your actions. You haven’t realized you already decided, you already tipped the domino of cause and effect. The multiverse is filled with the corpuses of your failures. -- Anon Guest

It doesn't matter, whispered the voice in the back of the Hellkin's mind. You can try your heart out in proving yourself a hero... they'll still call you a monster.

Ze was used to that voice. It had been a constant companion since the first time ze'd learned the harsh lesson that ze was a monster. And that there were a very rare few that ever spent their sympathy or empathy on monsters. The Hellkin had only met a very few to even tolerate hir presence.

Those were hir adventuring companions. Each seeking the grandest prize they could grasp. Money. Fame. Adulation. That was how they started. One by one, all put their starting ambitions aside in favour of the greater good. This Hellkin had not, as it was the simplest for many, but nigh impossible for hir.

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