Chapter 168: Eye For An Eye
As the world crumbled, as the earth shattered shook and the skies split above him, he remembered this wasn’t his present, it was his past. All that remained was darkness.
Darkness reigned supreme.
Darkness was his world.
In that darkness came life. Greenery. Plants and trees suddenly grew and a glimmer of light appeared. Then He appeared. He who went to the well, spoke to it, and offered His eye. He who gained wisdom of all words through sacrifice.
That very same well was offered to him. Kazi Hossain stood on a blood-red lake, staring into the face of a man he did not recognize. A handsome man of strength, youth, and one-eye, his black hair as dark as the ravens on his shoulder.
"You’re bored. Oh-so bored of this game," He said.
Kazi remained steadfast. What stood in his way was a manifestation of Mímisbrunnr—a young Odin, or so he assumed.
"The game of life. The Heavenly Games. All of it bores you," He continued. "You are lazy. Capable of doing so much more, capable of reverse engineering magic itself, yet not willing to do so. You spend time on weaklings. Why?" Silence. "Why did you not bring William with you to fight Jack?"
"Jack would have killed him."
"And not you as well? You have gone from a saviour to a man. You will never defeat Jack with such reservations. In the beginning, you nearly let yourself die to a slime. In your prime—nay, as a boy, the mere notion of death to a creature of that level would have been ludicrous."
A voice screeched into his head. A voice that, up until now, had been sealed in the confines of his mind and now screaming at him.