Second Chance.

[Victor Wolfe]

Beaten, Broken and Baffled, those where the feeling that Victor had felt just before he fell. No one had pushed him that much, not since he was a child starting his training. Perhaps he was just unlucky or, maybe he had gotten to emotionally invested in the fight.

"Of course that is what happened, you let that wall of flesh get into your head, if you would have used your head more and, maybe used more tricks and traps , we would not need to have this conversation." A voice Victor had heard before spoke, where had he heard it though? Thats right, it was his own Voice, but why did it appear to think independently? " Well that is because of the damage you received both physical, and mental. The way your emotions of anger, pain, and fear all contrasted created a disturbance in your psyche, that disturbance became me. I am the more logical part of your mind , by being able to communicate directly with you I hope to control your emotions better should you get into more conflict. No longer can you ignore me, for I will always be here, ready to advise." The voice replied to Victor's thoughts.

Victor thought about this revelation, it was true that his inexperience had allowed his emotions to take over, being wasteful with his attacking just to try and make the behemoth suffer, and thus had totally burned out by the closing act of their grand play. But how could this voice be trusted, what if its advice would only lead to his downfall. " You can trust me, I am you, and you are me, If you fail, I fail. We have the same ambitions, to gain as much power as is possible, and to kill anything that gets in our way, but you must learn to hold back emotions. This level of freedom is a new thing for us, and totally ignoring all logical thought to give in to basic desire, it's not how we do things." Victor felt a comfort he had not felt in a long time, closeness, as he was always at the top of his art whether it be diplomacy, protection or assassination, he had no one he could call an equil, thus no one ever truly befriended him, most people respected him to much or feared what he would do if they talked back. This voice was an equil, quite literally another him. And who better to tell him what they need to do next than himself.

Victor slowly began to regain consciousness, his advanced regeneration speeding the waking process up, he looked at the man applying bandages , Victor began to reach for his dagger but the voice in his head screeched, " don't even think about it, this person is clearly treating you, it might speed up the healing of our wounds, and our face needs all the healing it can get, and incase you have not been counting there are now four people around us, one at least showing friendliness towards the man you just tried to kill, pretend to be dead or unconscious for a while longer and they may leave you alone, If you sit tight for now even if they try to finish us, we may have recover enough to run away, none appear to be that fast." Victor Wolfe stopped his attempt to reach for the dagger and let this medic continue to clean and wrap his wounds, he did a good job, making sure to clean anything that looked infected before wrapping it tightly, whilst the creature known as Carn was distracting the three giants, Victor whispered to the medic " why are you helping me" his voice was weak and cracked, he had taken much more of a beating than even he could have predicted. The medic whispered back, " Carn told me too". Victor realised the implication of this.

In Victor's land no one would ever help anyone without good reason, favours were expected to be paid back, thus Victor according to his own system of belief was indebted to Carn he would have to find a moment to speak with him, otherwise he would never be able to forgive himself, "our rules sure mean a lot to you dont they?" Victor thought back,"of course, i crafted my code of honor whilst training and during my career as an assassin and guard, without it I am no better than a petty criminal" The voice retorted " Oh come now, we are at least on the level of your average sociopath by now" the voice taunted, Victor could feel himself getting angry, " you see this is what I mean, a voice in your head can cause you to snap, first thing we are training is your self control" Victor calmed himself and agreed. He decided to listen in the conversation that was taking place near him, If he could get Carn alone that would be ideal, he also wanted to know what was being shown on that device, but if not, he would use his assassin skills to track them and find out anyway.