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I Still Cry
by Seven
Disclaimer:
Earth: Final Conflict and its characters are
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Note from Author: First person story from Da'an's POV.
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It seems like an eternity since Zo'or left, his face and eyes cold and hard.
He was angry at me, angry that I left him in the care of others in the years
that he should have spent with me.
I still felt pride as he rose through the ranks of the diplomatic caste, but it was tempered. He disdained all who did not think as he did, and showed a strange animosity towards anything that was not Taelon.
I watched him as he continued to rise, treating me not like a parent, but as a feared rival. He assumed the mantle that I had when he was young—the desire to save our species. And the worst, I knew he had no child to mourn his absence. I knew how much it hurt him. Perhaps our relationship would have been different, if he had not been sterile.
And then he rose to the very pinnacle, the leader of the Synod himself. I thought that he might actually be happy now, though deprived of friends and family. But now I see that this is not so, that his old fears and desires and miseries are still there, under the surface.
And though Taelons cannot shed tears, I still cry.
