"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."