I Am Mane Harbinger: XX

“In my first few years as king of the titans I had to endure a number of challenges,” Cronos’s deep voice carried the power of his past and stabilized the trembling of Mane’s Soul Scape. And though the Supreme had bowed his head once again, Cronos knew that he was listening.

“The toughest ones came from my father’s brothers. In one of such duels I lost my eye. And in another, I lost my mind. Then came the final one, where I lost my heart.”

As Cronos spoke his features that had been hidden all this while were exposed to Mane. And when the young Supreme lifted his head upon sensing the changes around him, he was shaken to his core, much like his own Soul Scape.

For in front of him wasn’t the perfect image he had sculpted in his mind in the leisurely minutes of the day and the aimless ones of the night. Before him was a face scarred by the trials of life and a heart that wasn’t a heart. And that was because the Cronos Mane saw was the Cronos he didn’t think he would ever see.

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