While Cael was busy hunting down the people who had wronged Soren in the past, almost as if punishing them could somehow ease the guilt gnawing inside him, others were also moving in their own ways.
After discovering the miserable life Soren had lived before going to the North, Cael's anger only deepened. The more he learned, the more ruthless he became. Every name that surfaced and every person who had humiliated, used or hurt Soren, became a target for his quiet but brutal pursuit as if neglecting the truth that he wasn't one of them.
In his mind, it felt like justice or perhaps it was simply the only way he could convince himself that he was doing something right after everything that had already happened.
And after everything he did.
