From embers to infernos.
The Wrath of Zillion.
HYLAX
A thought burns at the back of your mind.
It’s difficult to sit still and even more difficult to control your breathing. You look at your clenched hands. You shouldn’t be this angry right now. Why are you so triggered?
That tiny thought lingers and you feel it begin to grow.
With a quick turn you try to remove yourself from the situation. You seek a focal to rest your eyes, to rest your mind. You want the burning inside to subside if just for a moment. Just a single moment to rest and catch your thoughts.
But that same nagging, burning thought starts to grow too large to ignore.
You realize you hear laughing. Is it yours or someone else’s? Is there someone else inside your head? You turn around, fists at your sides, teeth squeezing into each other so hard it starts to hurt. But you don’t mind. Not at all. The thought has now fully developed and it’s all you can think about. The more you think about it, the anger that scared you before now feels like a warm blanket. The truth is so simple now.
You’re right. They're wrong.
Hylax finds embers in everyone. These smouldering thoughts can be breathed into a fire, and at the best of times, they become a contagious fire that lights up every person they come into contact with. Anger, retribution, cruelty, blood lust, and justice. No human has been able to experience these without Hylax’s touch.
Some people need a push, and some just need the slightest bit of help to convince themselves that their rage is warranted. Their feelings are justified and harming others is what is right given their circumstance. Hylax is not here to judge or condone. Like fire, he prowls for food to consume until it turns to ash. How long a person can burn is entirely dependent on so many factors, and Hylax is a master of each one. It can be easy to see Hylax as mindless as a forest fire with nothing driving him except for primal forces. But nothing could be further from the truth.
