looking for heaven found the devil in me; lagertha

[Rodrik]

Hunger. It was a craving the creature of the night often had simply dismissed before. However, there is desperation in the way he searches frantically to fill this yearning void within him. It was an essential that simply could not be put aside. He needed to find something to fill this empty hollow within him. Yet, it was not simple nourishment that the devil craved for. It was the very soul of another – the essence of life itself – he needed and so desperately required to live. He follows the hunger blindly. It is a desire that cannot be pushed away, not when it has for so long been engrained into the biology of the monster that feeds off of others. Even he, the devil himself, could not drive this instinct away. It was in the very nature of him to do so – he was created to prey on others, after all he is a predator, a murderer, a demon. Rodrik rummages through the jungle, hiding in the shadows and retracing the familiar paths of his past. He knows these trails forwards and backwards, left and right. It didn’t matter what way – the devil knew them all one by one. Each of them came with a familiar. When he follows these paths, Rodrik relives each of the memories. He recalls each of them, remembering the name and faces of those that filled the Amazons. He doesn’t know why he is here. The Amazons isn’t his home anymore. It used to be, long ago – maybe it still was deep within the very darkness of his heart. Rodrik loved this place. It is filled with every good memory he ever had. However, now it seemed repulsive and haunting. His parents are dead and the rest of his family is long gone or dying. Brunhild, the only friend whom used to live and roam this terrain is gone too. Everything he knew was slipping away. But the Amazons was where he had found it all. It is where he had found salvation, revenge, death blood, and most of all life. It was no wonder he had come back here – naturally by instinct Rodrik would find the very thing he needed here. The jungle has always provided his needs. Perhaps this one more time it would again.

Rodrik

angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become devils

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