You're. Awesome.
Seriously.
Also really sorry if you missed it. >.>
Tiruin, I just finished reading my PM. Thank you for sending it to me. I can see why you elected to not post it publicly, and why you offered to send it privately.
Thank you. Being allowed to see into your mind, to see your stance shift, that is a gift of the sort that I value. I believe you cannot believe me, but that does not change that I speak true. (I've lied once and once only in this game - my original 'drill sergeant' post to Luke - my 'promise' that I would use everything in my power to see him lynched if he would not play... ahem that lie was sure proven a lie.... I surely did 'gather up the wave' to drown him, then rapidly 'poured oil on the waters' and redirected that flood... poor Kleril!)
None the less. Tiruin and truth, now.
You acted with honor, by my standards, throughout. I'm not without blame either. There's a path through this that perhaps you cannot see (I hope you can) - Everything you have shown that you dislike about you is also a part of me. Many of the things you like about you I also have at least some of - but I have every flaw that you have admitted to having - and I have every flaw that I have seen you show.
How ashamed should I be? How bad am I? But I have your every known weakness and I believe I do not have your every strength - I have seen strengths in you that I myself lack. So I ask you, for honesty, for truth, and for healing - take the answer you feel is correct for me - "How ashamed should Imp be?" and apply that answer equally to yourself, the exact same answer - or one kinder. Because I assure you, I am no worse than you. You may be my better, but you are not my lesser.