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Eruhaben hugged Cale, he put Cale’s head on his shoulder while playing with Cale’s hair.
"It's ok"
Cale sobbed, but it sounded too pitiful for a commander, his pale skin and small structure compared to the dragon didn't help either, but then Cale snapped and realized something, Eruhaben misunderstood it for a flinch and patted his head.
"Eruhaben, I..... I... I think there's something wrong with me"
Eruhaben comforted him " there's nothing wrong with you, it ok to be weak and sad sometimes"
"You don't understand, why didn't I cry before?, why is it all raising now?"
"Maybe it was because you were acting strong for too long and now that you're comfortable you're breaking down all the surpassed emotions"
"No, Eruhaben, I meant these weird thoughts and voices I hear in my brain"
"you hear voices?"
"Well I always did, but now it's kind of different because these voices don't communicate they just order, they're ordering me to do vicious stuff, and sometimes listened to them"
Eruhaben stopped the patting and took a minute to throughly think about what Cale said.
"So you did stuff like harming yourself and not eating, because some scary and desperate voices filled with despair were hunting you to do it ?"
Cale raised his head from Eruhaben's shoulder and looked at him in the eye with his red eyes from crying.
"How did you know, it's like you described"
Eruhaben's eyes shook, he felt anger, his dragon rage was almost poured in the room , if it wasn't for him hugging Cale.
"I know a divine curse that lead to such results,... one of the dragon cubes I raised through my time was very strong and determined, now that I think about it, the white star and the sealed God were planning to make dragon's extinct"
Cale focus on the part of determined dragon " what happened to the dragon?"
Eruhaben took a while to continue" he betrayed his dragon nature, he was a purple dragon but changed his color to blue as he was insecure, he was getting worse and afraid of anyone even ordinary humans, he... he... he betrayed his instincts and killed himself, he always told he heard despairfull voices commanding him, I tried everything to save him, but he's gone now, he was only 45 years old"
Cale remembered that Eruhaben was a thousand year old" truly young for a dragon"
Eruhaben tried to swallow this bitter memory and focus on ways to heal Cale, at that time he didn't know about white star nor sealed God, but now he knows, now he can save Cale, no more youths are gonna die of despair on Eruhaben's watch anymore.