Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5999656-20170521035143/@comment-5999656-20170618025145

(Sure, I like your way of connecting an RP to the next story at the very end. Think I'll do the same :P)

"Until next time, Decade."

Zanipher shut the car door behind her after a brief farewell. She set off among the crowds of people heading home after work, and within a few seconds she was lost to view. By herself once again.

The next task, the silencing of Platinum, seemed likely to weigh on her much more than had the mercy killing of Gren. With her years of fieldwork, and having been trained since she was young as a mafia princess, the greyness of her morality had always been obvious to her. Zan never hesitated to exact her objective on anyone who fell into that same camp.

But to hunt down a teenage officer-to-be, who'd had to deal with the fact that her father had already been ravaged by the crime system... with this knowledge in mind, it was crystal clear why Platinum was so dedicated to the upholding of justice. Zanipher knew she was targeting a girl who was good through and through, a moral compass who didn't budge on her beliefs even when her friends abandoned her. In order to complete her mission, Zan would have to lock away all parts of herself that were sympathetic to someone that had seen so many personal struggles.

Because the fact of the matter was that Platinum was naive. A heroine she might be, a realist, not so much.

Zanipher pulled up a web tab on her Scroll. She read the brief words on the page, repeating it to herself so that she would have the conviction to take things all the way if necessary. She'd tell them to the girl's face before she started the beatdown.

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

Courage to change the things I can,

And wisdom to know the difference."

The Serenity Prayer. An old theological recitation, though reprinted and rephrased numerous times, the core meaning remained the same. Know your limits.

Little did Zanipher realize that this prayer might just be applicable to herself as well.

And it would take the words of another Dragon to show her the truth.