[Great. Hawk was completely lost to the battle lust. Now, caught between a charging Hawk and a dragon preparing to turn them into piles of ash, Darin had to make a choice.]
[Did he let Hawk make the attack? He'd be able to cripple the dragon and likely stop its rampage. And even if it didn't outright slay the dragon, maybe if it couldn't use its breath attacks, maybe they'd be able to talk it down...]
[But doing so would cost Hawk his life. And this wasn't any sort of altruistic sacrifice. Hawk clearly wasn't in his right mind. This wasn't a heroic sacrifice, it was just...death for death's sake. Was it right to let Hawk make that call when he was so consumed by the battle that he wasn't thinking straight?]
[But if he stopped Hawk...they were on Celliwig's doorstep. If they didn't cripple the dragon here, that was it. The forces in Celliwig were far too divided, too uncoordinated to properly fend off its assault. If they didn't stop the dragon here, Celliwig was gone.]
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[Did he let Hawk make the attack? He'd be able to cripple the dragon and likely stop its rampage. And even if it didn't outright slay the dragon, maybe if it couldn't use its breath attacks, maybe they'd be able to talk it down...]
[But doing so would cost Hawk his life. And this wasn't any sort of altruistic sacrifice. Hawk clearly wasn't in his right mind. This wasn't a heroic sacrifice, it was just...death for death's sake. Was it right to let Hawk make that call when he was so consumed by the battle that he wasn't thinking straight?]
[But if he stopped Hawk...they were on Celliwig's doorstep. If they didn't cripple the dragon here, that was it. The forces in Celliwig were far too divided, too uncoordinated to properly fend off its assault. If they didn't stop the dragon here, Celliwig was gone.]
[Darin raced through every option he had.]
[Dammit...DAMMIT!]