【Destiny 2】Book: The Man They Call Cayde - Flop

I play nice with the Vanguard now, but it wasn't always that way. Not that we were enemies. We just tended to see things through a different lens.

 

But Andal…? Playing nice was his forte. He was always more… I think "diplomatic" is the word?

 

Our big play back in the day was… get the Vanguard to loosen their leash—let us explore, let us lead a new era of expansion—and the riches of the system would be ours.

 

"Ours" as in everybody's, of course. Though we'd get our cut.

 

In hindsight, we were waaay too ambitious.

 

Didn't see it in that light at the time. But, then again, you never do.

 

When Andal joined the Vanguard, he was our inside man. It was a sweet deal—he would drop intel on new stashes or Fallen movements, and Shiro and I would jump the gun, hit 'em first, claim what we could, deliver the rest to the City.

 

Maybe we skimmed a little off the top—nothing excessive, just a "finder's fee."

 

Probably shouldn't be putting all this out there for anyone to judge… What's the statute of limitations on misspent youth? Whatever… Long time ago. But it speaks to what I'm getting at…

 

I always tried to do right, even if I occasionally got sidetracked. Andal joining the Vanguard was a gift in some ways, a bummer in others. More importantly…

 

He'd made a deal, given his word—to me and to himself—when he took the Dare.

 

I won, he lost.

 

So he left the road. Joined the bigwigs up in the Vanguard. And he reminded me of a lesson I've always known, but every now and then would forget…

 

You give your word, you keep it.

 

But the longer Andal was up in that Tower, "caged"—my word, never his—the more he saw things "the Vanguard way." Looking back, he was only ever doing the right thing. Seeing him change and, in truth, grow as a Guardian and as a person…

 

I've never admitted this, but… I thought less of him. My best friend, my closest ally—all because he'd stuck to his word. Accepted the Dare, and even when he came up on the bad end, he never wavered from doing exactly what he said he'd do…

 

Join the damn Vanguard. Leave me and Shiro to have all the fun.

 

I thought he was a sucker.

 

Turns out, the only sucker was me.

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나는 지금 뱅가드와 잘 어울리지 만 항상 그런 건 아니었다. 우리가 적이 아니었다. 우리는 단지 다른 렌즈를 통해 사물을 보는 경향이있었습니다.

하지만 안달…? 좋은 플레이는 그의 장점이었습니다. 그는 항상 그 이상이었습니다. "외교적"이란 단어가 아닐까요?

그날 우리의 큰 플레이는… 선봉대가 그들의 목줄을 풀게하는 것이 었습니다. 탐험하고, 새로운 확장 시대를 이끌고, 시스템의 풍요 로움은 우리 것이 될 것입니다.

물론 모든 사람의 "우리". 비록 우리가 상처를 입을지라도.

돌이켜 보면 우리는 너무 야심이 많았습니다.

당시에는 그런 관점에서 보지 못했습니다. 그러나 다시는 절대 그렇게하지 않습니다.

Andal이 뱅가드에 합류했을 때 그는 우리의 속사람이었습니다. 그는 새로운 은닉 물이나 몰락 한 움직임에 대한 정보를 떨어 뜨 렸고, Shiro와 나는 총을 뛰어 넘어 그들을 먼저 치고, 우리가 할 수있는 것을 주장하고, 나머지는 도시에 전달했습니다.

아마도 우리는 과도하지 않고 단지 "파인더의 수수료"만 가지고 정상에서 약간 훑어 보았을 것입니다.

누군가가 판단 할 수 있도록이 모든 것을 내 놓으면 안 될 것입니다… 미스 펜트 청소년에 대한 시효는 무엇입니까? 어쨌든 ... 오래전. 그러나 그것은 내가 얻고있는 것을 말한다…

가끔 헛수고를 당하더라도 항상 옳은 일을하려고 노력했습니다. Vanguard에 합류 한 Andal은 어떤면에서는 선물이었고 다른면에서는 실망 스러웠습니다. 더 중요한 것은…

그는 자신이 감히 할 때 저와 자신에게 약속 한 거래를했습니다.

내가 이겼고 그는졌다.

그래서 그는 길을 떠났습니다. 선봉대에서 거물들과 합류했습니다. 그리고 그는 제가 항상 알고 있었던 교훈을 상기 시켰지만, 때때로 잊을 것입니다 ...

당신은 당신의 말을 전하고 그것을 유지합니다.

하지만 안달이 그 탑에 더 오래있을수록 "갇힌"(내 말은 그의 말이 아니라) "뱅가드 방식"을 더 많이 보았다. 돌이켜 보면 그는 옳은 일만하고있었습니다. 그가 변하고 사실 수호자이자 사람으로 성장하는 것을 보며 ...

나는 이것을 인정한 적이 없지만… 나는 그를 덜 생각했다. 나의 가장 친한 친구, 나의 가장 가까운 동맹은 그가 그의 말을 고수했기 때문입니다. Dare를 받아 들였고, 그가 나쁜 결말을 냈을 때에도 그는 그가하겠다고 말한 것을 정확히하는 것을 결코 흔들리지 않았습니다.

망할 뱅가드에 가입하세요. 나와 Shiro는 모든 즐거움을 누릴 수 있습니다.

나는 그가 바보라고 생각했다.

밝혀진 건 나 뿐이었다.

 

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