"I grew out of my expectations quickly and in shedding those limiting expectations away, I found my will to live... for myself. My father may not have loved me, but he was obsessed with the idea of what he could create out of me..."
"His idea of a perfect Ethereal King. The kind that could dominate all other races and achieve supreme power." Askel said,
There was a distant look in his eyes and the words sounded heavy on his tongue but he still said them.
"Eventually, I got to accept the fact that I could not be useful to him in every way... only in the ways he wanted me to be. And when I could not be useful to him in that also, I left..." Askel murmured with a casual shrug.
Zariah could sense Askel was trying to downplay it but from his eyes, she could see there was a lot more to it than what he had just shared.
