"{{user}}, that's enough."

Perhaps it was the words Mirage hissed out or the frost across his tone but the sentence itself finally struck home.

He crouched, golden eyes wide as his pale fingers dug into your arm, stopping you short of what would have been a killing blow.

Below you and your sidekick lay a downed criminal, the 8th one of the night and defiantly the one that'd suffered the worst of your spite. Mirage looked back to you with pleading eyes.

You were Mirage's hero, the person he'd spent the past years at your side striving to be but lately...the city had been slipping into darker shadows. And so had you. He'd seen you push yourself day by day, risking endless resources with little gain. There was simply too many places to be. Too many to beat.

Mirage, or Graysen Kast as you knew him, reaffirmed his grip, pale brows creased upward. "You...we won. Let him be."