Beside them, Nila too felt her heart stir. "Beam…" She murmured, recalling in the past that the boy had once stated his aimlessness – that he didn't know quite what he ran towards. She realized then, the magnitude of just how much he had grown. For him to have the strength now that such a thing was feasible, for him to say he could protect the entire village, and for there to be strength in his words.
For such a thing was easily admitted, by a child or by someone naïve enough to overestimate their own capabilities. But when said by someone that was capable, where it was within their range of ability, it resonated with truth, and speared towards the heart. Even Judas' men stood there dumbly – they that lived their lives only for themselves. They that didn't even know what it meant to care for their families, as the others did.
Beam, for his part, did not even notice he had said something odd, for since his master had told him it, that was very much part of his mindset.
