__**Eternal Scars (Fallen Arm - Black Wreckage)**__ Melia: Dunban… I don’t know how to ask this…\\ Dunban: What is it, Melia?\\ Melia: The man in the metal-faced Mechon… Mumkhar I think? Were you and he acquainted before he became that… thing?\\ Dunban: __[What difference does it make?]__ –\\ Melia: W-well…\\ Dunban: I apologise. I didn’t mean to sound so defensive. I just don’t quite understand the relevance of your question.\\ Melia: It’s difficult to explain. But I need to know. I must know, Dunban. He murdered my father, yet I know nothing about him.\\ Dunban: I understand, Melia. I’m sorry. I should have spoken to you about this sooner.\\ Melia: Thank you. I know it’s not easy for you to talk about him.\\ Dunban: __[It will never be easy!]__ – **Not after what he did to our home! And to Fiora!**\\ Melia: Believe me, I know. He stole my father from me as well.\\ Dunban: I doubt the day when I forgive him will ever come, Melia.\\ Melia: Just as long as you understand the danger of living in the past.\\ Dunban: I do. I know if I live with hate in my heart, I’m no better than him. He became consumed by his hatred for me. And he died for it…\\ Melia: I see…\\ Dunban: It was Shulk who showed me the light. I’d have gone down a dark path otherwise. I’d have taken Mumkhar’s life. I’m very grateful to Shulk. I hope I can repay the favour one day.\\ Melia: I feel much the same way. Let us work together to live by Shulk’s example.\\ Melia: Dunban… I don’t know how to ask this…\\ Dunban: What is it, Melia?\\ Melia: The man in the metal-faced Mechon… Mumkhar I think? Were you and he acquainted before he became that… thing?\\ Dunban: __[What difference does it make?]__ –\\ Melia: W-well…\\ Dunban: I apologise. I didn’t mean to sound so defensive. I just don’t quite understand the relevance of your question.\\ Melia: It’s difficult to explain. But I need to know. I must know, Dunban. He murdered my father, yet I know nothing about him.\\ Dunban: I understand, Melia. I’m sorry. I should have spoken to you about this sooner.\\ Melia: Thank you. I know it’s not easy for you to talk about him.\\ Dunban: __[I’m fine. Ask away.]__ + I am partly responsible, after all.\\ Melia: You? What do you mean?\\ Dunban: He changed right around the time I started using the Monado. He coveted it so much that his jealousy consumed him. If I’m honest, I wasn’t completely oblivious to this. But I didn’t act. And then it was too late.\\ Melia: You should not blame yourself. The darkness that haunted his heart was to blame. He was lost long ago, it seems.\\ Dunban: I just wish that fool had realised. I wasn’t the true heir to the Monado, Shulk was! He never should have had a reason to hate either of us…\\ Melia: Dunban…\\ Dunban: I shouldn’t get emotional. You probably didn’t want me to go on about the old days like this.\\ Melia: Actually I found great value in it. Thank you, Dunban.\\ Melia: Dunban… I don’t know how to ask this…\\ Dunban: What is it, Melia?\\ Melia: The man in the metal-faced Mechon… Mumkhar I think? Were you and he acquainted before he became that… thing?\\ Dunban: __[We were comrades-in-arms.]__ + One year ago, he and I risked our lives fighting the Mechon. But when the battle turned, he chose to make a run for it.\\ Melia: So he was a cowardly man?\\ Dunban: He was always fairly unreliable. Deep down I knew that one day he’d fail us in a time of need. But in the battle a year ago, he still seemed to be on our side.\\ Melia: What do you mean, Dunban? Are you saying he wasn’t always the monster he became?\\ Dunban: Whatever his reasons… That day, he was fighting off those machines as hard as we were.\\ Melia: That is… difficult to believe.\\ Dunban: __[You would not understand.]__ –\\ Melia: Hmph. That may well be what you think, Dunban.\\ Dunban: I apologise, Melia. My words are not meant to hurt. But I knew him, and I can only tell you what I saw.\\ Melia: Do you think he had a reason for fighting? Someone to protect?\\ Dunban: I’ve often thought about that. He is originally from another colony. One destroyed long ago. So in theory, he had nothing to lose. Maybe that’s all it was…\\ Melia: Perhaps you are right. Whatever the reasons, his atrocities can never be justified.\\ Dunban: Of course. I suppose it would be futile to think too hard about it.\\ Melia: Dunban… Does it hurt to remember?\\ Dunban: Hmph. I didn’t mean for you to worry over this. This is one of many tales of battle. A neverending circle of betrayal.\\ Melia: If you say so. But I look forward to the day that our world is free of war.\\ Melia: Dunban… I don’t know how to ask this…\\ Dunban: What is it, Melia?\\ Melia: The man in the metal-faced Mechon… Mumkhar I think? Were you and he acquainted before he became that… thing?\\ Dunban: __[We were comrades-in-arms.]__ + One year ago, he and I risked our lives fighting the Mechon. But when the battle turned, he chose to make a run for it.\\ Melia: So he was a cowardly man?\\ Dunban: He was always fairly unreliable. Deep down I knew that one day he’d fail us in a time of need. But in the battle a year ago, he still seemed to be on our side.\\ Melia: What do you mean, Dunban? Are you saying he wasn’t always the monster he became?\\ Dunban: Whatever his reasons… That day, he was fighting off those machines as hard as we were.\\ Melia: That is… difficult to believe.\\ Dunban: __[I know the truth.]__ + That’s why I’m so full of regret. Maybe I could have stopped him.\\ Melia: You mustn’t blame yourself. You could not have stopped this.\\ Dunban: Perhaps. But it’s complicated. I can’t deny that he was a bit of an… unreliable fellow. But he saved my life countless times. After I took up the Monado there was a definite change in him.\\ Melia: He was taken by its power. I pity him.\\ Dunban: I just wish he’d realised. I wasn’t the true heir to the Monado, Shulk was! He never should have had a reason to hate either of us.\\ Melia: Dunban…\\ Dunban: //Mumkhar, I doubt I’ll ever forgive you for what you did… But I’ll never forget you and I hope you can find peace…//