Did Orion feel alright about leaving them in that state?
No, he didn't. In fact, he felt quite disgusted at himself for doing that.
But he just couldn't stay with them after what he had done to them, so it was his only choice.
Did he run away from them after what he had done?
He indeed ran away. Although he deluded himself with all that crap about stopping General Dray and his team, deep down, he knew all of that was just him finding an excuse to run away from them.
As for why he did that, it was just that he couldn't face them anymore. Every time he looked at their faces, the guilt clawed at him harder, twisting his insides into a knot.
'Let's not think about this anymore.'
Orion thought as he increased his pace.
Along the way, he found even more rotten corpses of the scorplings. But seeing them, he remembered the ones they had faced before—the ones he had killed using his Curse Transformation.
