Odd one Out

A heated argument with his fellow Anathemites causes Terminos to wonder just where he fits in among the three others he calls his family.

Plot Background
Odd one Out takes place immediately following a heated argument between Executor, Oneiros, and Lynna against Terminos. This argument comes right after the Anathemites entered Brandon Persus's mind to find Nihilius inside the Star Palace.

The solo is written by Arachnos, and from Terminos's perspective.

Synopsis
Hidden within one of the deep cavities inside the comet The Nihilius Clan calls home, Terminos broods alone with his thoughts as well as to hide from his fellow Anathemites even if they were most likely not going to try to find him.

In this cavity Terminos remembers that, despite the many challenges that he had suffered through alongside Exector, Oneiros, and Lynna, he had not experienced the same level of tragedy that they had on the Second Equestria, and could not truly relate to the feeling of pure despair that they still felt every day nor the well of pure hatred that all three felt for Arachna, even to the point of seriously considering murdering her and damning every single world she resided over due to her mistakes and ego.

These thoughts lead him to chillingly wonder if Executor was not the only one considered to be too far gone to save. Terminos briefly wonders if the three's grief means that they all cannot be saved. That in turn makes him question if he would be the same in that situation, and if it was a process happening to him right now. That thought takes him to wonder if he himself was being just as preachy or "holier-than-thou" during their argument as Arachna is widely known to be.

For the first time since he, Oneiros, and Lynna came back to Nihilius to train, Terminos wonders if he should just outright leave and go back to the Factory. Yet that plan is fraught with the danger of facing the Factory's paranoia of the Anathemite's true loyalty; or having to face down Arachnos as the latter forces himself to work with a being that, in his mind, stands for everything Arachnos opposes; or simply having to work with ponies and people that only see him as an exalted lunatic that desires nothing more than to slaughter ponies down to their foals for the "greater good"

feeling stuck between the Anathemites' scorn and the Factory's paranoia, Terminos weeps as he feels well and truly alone.

Trivia

 * Odd one Out is the first solo written by Arachnos.