The Value of Forgiveness

JP with Omni and Lorem:

Gonyaul took a seated position in front of her while listening to her explaination. It made him happy to hear that she thought she was better because of him. That meant he was a soul mate; a mate that helped her soul grow.

He encouraged her to look up and not down as she had with him. His eyes embraced her’s compassionately as their gazes met.

Gonyaul wove his hands, like a dance of exploration, into her hands and as he replied he marveled at the way their hands looked intertwined in the space between them.

How to answer her question? To a Vaux, forgiveness was something they literally trained in, in addition studied, while growing up. It was like swimming to a fish or flying to a bird at this point to him.

“Do to others as I wish do to me. If I want forgive when I wrong, then fair I forgive when others wrong?”

He pulled their hands down to rest in the space between their laps.

“To forgive is to take debt other owes you and no longer hold against them. It sets a prisoner free and you realize the prisoner was you. It lets you move on from the pain of past and no longer be chain to the negative of hurt.

To forgive is more for the forgiver than the forgiven.”

“Even if the mistake is killing someone?” she looked at him. Maybe he had guidance for that answer too.

Weren’t there just some things that were unforgivable? How could you forgive genocide? Could Voah forgive the Sorcerer King and the Inquisition?

She couldn’t forgive herself. That was just it. She wouldn’t want anyone but Gonyaul to forgive her for the things she had done… the hatred and the killing… for herself… for the Inquisition… she was sure that she deserved to die… but the will to survive and be with him was stronger.