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「路西法」预言

- 《狂猎》前导 -

- 基于Vertigo 第14刊 -

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一切尘埃落定之后...晨星站在垂死恒星的中央，沉思着。麦泽金不知所踪。或许她也放弃了他。就连她。

After everything... The Morningstar stood at the centre of a dying star... contemplating. Mazikeen was nowhere to be seen. Maybe she had given up on him, he thought. Even her.

他再次梦见了希克拉库斯——那晚他们在月神的注视下点燃的烈火。晨星在想，他的一位老朋友是否还存在于宇宙的某处——在梦境的角落里。

He dreamt of Sycorax again - the fire they lit together, under the watchful eyes of the moon god. The Morningstar wondered if an old friend of his would still be somewhere in the universe - in corners of dreams.

“亲爱的墨菲斯...但他早已逝去，不是吗？”

“Sweet Morpheus... but he’s long gone, isn’t he?”

可是接下来呢？前任地狱之主再次孤身一人——孤立无援，十面埋伏。

But what next? The former lord of hell was all alone - again. No allies, loads of enemies... 

“似乎有一个预言，是吧？”

“There is a prophecy, isn’t there?”

他痛恨预言。毕竟，他领导的那场战争——一切战争的始祖，是为了自由而战的。预言，从根本上来讲就是不自由的。于是他又想起了那场战争——他自己的坠落，以及，战争的号角差之毫厘就被再一次吹响。究竟是为了什么呢？希克拉库斯最终连无尽之死亡都拒绝了——她选择拥抱命运赋予她的来世。一切都是妄付吗？

He hated prophecies. After all, the war he fought, the first of all wars, was for freedom, wasn’t it? Prophecies - painfully unfree, by definition. He thought of the war again, how he had fallen and how another one was almost started... for what? In the end Sycorax refused even Death of the Endless - she chose to embrace whatever afterlife that shall take her. Was it all for nothing then?

那个预言...那个叙述着他将回到地域统治黑暗的预言仍使他不安。毕竟他在恳请梦之君主，他的老朋友，割下双翅之后，经历了这么许多。他有时会思念他——浪漫的，骄傲的，永远严肃的梦王，无尽家族排行第三的睡魔墨菲斯——也是路西法·晨星曾立誓毁灭之存在。

The prophecy... that he shall return to rule the darkness again unsettled him nonetheless. After all he had come such a long way, since... Dream old friend cut off his wings - under his request. He did miss him - the romantic, the proud, the ever serious Dream King - the third of The Endless that the Morningstar once sworn to destroy.

“想法真是奇怪的东西，对吧？”

“Thoughts are strange things, aren’t they?”

但是时候行动了。

But it was time to move on.