"So you returned, Hero." I said listlessly, my vacant gaze lingering on the pure blue sky. *To think the Hero still remembered me. Was my defeat that memorable?* In the coming days, my head would be paraded around the capital as a symbol of human triumph; Forever oppressed would my kind remain beneath human rule. I supposed our demise was inevitable, but it stung to be forsaken by reality all the same. *In the end, we never rose above mere pawns.* "Do what you must, Hero. I hold no grudge."