My mother always told me as a child to never trust fallen. She told of how they murdered my father. She told me of their cruelty and pain, Strife and lies. I was raised to believe her. But their actions told me otherwise. And so, the reef wars came. Many battles lied ahead, with agony to follow. But one day, a day long forgotten to me, I saw something none would believe. I was scouting in the reef. Nothing new. The shivers of purple ice, the cold smell of winter, And the screeches of a creature far behind. While walking down a narrow path alone, I heard a whisper behind me. Not English, nor Russian. No no. Eliksni. I turned my head to be greeted with a shock pistol to my face. Out of sudden reaction, I turned the Dreg's arm to face my right. I kneed him in his eliksni-no-no spot and he fell to his knees. I then elbowed him in his face. He fell to the ground in dread. I pointed my pistol to his head, expecting to fire. But when I looked in his eyes, as ugly as I thought they were, as cruel as I thought he was, I saw the same fear. The same fear of all the awoken he had Killed. The same fear as when he put his gun to my face. Now he knew that fear. He knew our anger. He knew our pain. And that was all that mattered. I tried to shoot it. I tried to pull the trigger. But I couldn't. I threw the gun to my left, it's bang echoed through the dark beyond. The Dreg remained there. Petrified. Confused. He then jolted his feet with his shock pistol in hand. I closed my eyes, regretting my actions. I expected three bullets in my skull. instead, I was greeted with a loud banging noise on my left. Slowly I opened my eyes. The dreg stood there, his pistol gone. I stood up and spoke to him. "I wish all fallen were as kind and merciful as you." The dreg said something in eliksni, what he said is unknown to me, but I understood four words: Promise, marvel, take, shock. A fallen captain screeched in the far distance. The dreg then sprinted away. I turned to my left, seeing his shock pistol. That day I returned to the vesting outpost with it. Petra came up to me and looked at The shock pistol. "How did you get that?" She asked. I proudly answered with: "It was the Dreg's promise." [spoiler]questions? Comments? Concerns? [/spoiler]