Cautionary Tale (Part 2)

'She still believes in me more than I do if she thinks I can overcome the bottleneck of the bright blue and achieve the violet. I guess Mother was right about one thing. I'm a failure of a son. I wonder why it took me so long to realize it.

'Maybe I could reach the violet if I kept trying, but what's the point? I will never regain all the treasures I've lost and I'm too tired to start over.' Jorl spent his day in alcohol-induced inebriation which along with his tantrums made him hard to miss.

All Awakened establishments refused to host him. They accepted his patronage only under the condition he took his order to go.

Jorl was trapped in a never-ending cycle of odd jobs to buy himself Red Dragon and drinking himself to sleep until he was out of alcohol. A small valley in-between mountains had become his home in the Gorgon Empire.