Chapter 37: Ravi turned and fled
Ravi just stood silently as Arlen finished the entire drink. He waited a minute or more, watching as the Captain covered his hand with both of his hands, his voice was hoarse as if on the verge of tears, "Today, it was my fault."
It was so familiar. After he smiled, waved everyone goodbye. After he dismissed the team, he would return to his dorm room, images of those that had died because of his poor decision would pester in his image, rendering him unable to sleep. It was his fault. He should have been faster, smarter, and a better hero. It was so familiar.
"How is it your fault?"
Arlen removed his hands from his eyes, those ocean-blue eyes were tinged with a hint of red, "I just made very poor decisions." He swallowed, "I knew that the Hero Association had villain spies but I still sent the message that someone with hypnotic ability had awakened. I was in a hurry, rushing so that I could get some arrests, so I could prove myself. So many people who were in surgery would have complications before the lights. If I had been faster, I would have arrested him before we got to the hospital and maybe..maybe there would not have been casualties and all for what...We do not even have the suspect. In just two days since he awakened, from hypnotizing Mrs Karen, he had already hypnotized the doctors and those in charge of the transplant lists." Arlen shuddered. He lowered his head. He seemed to be lost in his own world.
"The name of the organization that came for him is the Infernal Covenant. They are definitely among the top ten most evil groups in Avalon. All of their operations left countless casualties and now because of me, another powerful person would be added to their group. A hypnotist. The damage that Alex Malley would do in the future..."
"Would be your fault. Is that what you want to say again, Captain? Should it not be Draco’s fault, since he was the one who gave Alex Malley to the shapeshifter?" Ravi thought he was bad, but this person self balming might have even been worse than his. Not only did he take the blame for the past, but he was also planning to take the blame for the future. He gritted his teeth, overly righteous fool.
"Of course not, how did he know? You heard Officer Johnson, the person looked exactly like me."
"So it is not his fault.:"
"Of course not."