A Monster's Roar

Dear Imena,

I don't think I had ever felt so confident and yet so unsure of myself at the same time before, but those were the feelings coursing through me while walking into that battle.

I am the strongest being to have ever lived, my power only grows stronger as I age, gaining new abilities with each year. I was twenty years old when I walked into that battle, I was the strongest I had ever been in my life and I trained constantly- I still do.

But despite all of that, I was terrified. I was surrounded by people I loved dearly, and they were willing to lay down their lives so I can take out this threat, and I hated it. What if I couldn't protect them and fight off Andrew? What if someone got hurt? What if Milo got hurt? What if someone died? What if I can't beat Andrew?

As we moved quietly toward the tall beast Andrew turned into, I thought about all of it. I looked up at the beast, he seemed to be looking for something.

𝐼 𝒷𝑒𝓉 𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝓌𝑒'𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝒻𝓇𝒶𝒾𝒹. I thought, and I allowed myself to search his thoughts for a moment.

𝒴𝑜𝓊'𝓇𝑒 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒶𝓈 𝒶𝒻𝓇𝒶𝒾𝒹 𝒶𝓈 𝐼 𝒶𝓂. 𝒲𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝓉𝒽 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝒸𝓎 𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈, 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝒻 𝒾𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎? 𝐼 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝒾𝑒...𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓎𝑜𝓊. 𝒮𝑜 𝓌𝒽𝓎 𝒻𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉?

The monster let out a terrifying roar that shook the Earth. The buildings around us began to shake and crack as well, and a few windows burst.

I sighed, he must have heard me and didn't like any of what I said. 𝐼 𝑔𝓊𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝐼 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒶 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈, 𝒹𝑜 𝐼?

Andrew let out another roar, which I assumed was his answer to my question.

𝒴𝑒𝒶𝒽, 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉'𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓈𝒶𝓎.

- 𝒮. 𝑅𝑜𝓈𝑒