Strelein knew what was coming, but it didn't mean that it hurt any less. He had failed the pack he had lived in since the age of two, for the past three years. He had been here for more than half his life already and he was watching what he had built fall around his ears. Blood rushed into his head, and his ears buzzed unpleasantly as he fought the urge to scream, to cry out, to demand that this man take himself away from here and never show his face before him. But his heart panged for the people he was letting down now, being the way he was. He was letting them all down and he knew it, and they would know it once word got around to everyone else. They would know what a disgrace their Dauphin was, and they would know that he had failed them to his core. A disgrace. That's what he was. A disgrace.
He was the one to take his eyes away from the man, and averted them. Anywhere he wasn't, he looked. "Then I name you Constable." It would be his final act as a beaten Dauphin with nothing left but his life to his name. He was done. "Take your honor and go. You have a family to congratulate you on your success. Now leave me in peace." He turned away from Silvano, knowing that he was relinquishing his title, his hold on what had defined him for a year. He gave him the power he had, and let it slip through his fingers like sand on the beach. "Vigilante will agree with you, if he doesn't already. Get out of my sight," he said roughly, heading around the tree so that he may sit with his back to the Hotel, to the people he had betrayed. There was nothing for him in the future, and he knew what waited for him sooner than he had ever hoped for. Everyone things they'll live forever, but the former Dauphin knew that his eternity was coming to a close. It was a simple matter of when.
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