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Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.
“You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people.
“Being alive is not the same as living. I hope someday you’ll have a chance to realise the difference.”
“Everyone who wins says they were good, but they’re the ones who tell the story. They get to choose how we all remember it.
“You didn’t save me,” he said when he was finally capable of speech. “You just put us in hell for two years.”
MY SHAYLA
“I think I always saw running away as the destination. I never actually thought about what would be left of me by the time I got here.”
There were stories about the conditions found there, of citizens so starved that they were mistaken for necrothralls as they swarmed the liberating soldiers, begging for food.
Dare we say it…
By all accounts, it was an exceptionally successful campaign, with few casualties for the allied armies. The Liberation Front was ceaselessly praised for bringing the tyranny of the Undying to an end.
Remind you of anything????
How different it could have been if the international community had decided to put even a negligible amount of effort into caring sooner.
REMIND YOU OF ANYTHING AT ALL?!??
They’d all bided their time, waiting until the situation grew intolerable for them, and only striking after their victory was assured, and still somehow they were heroic.
IM LOOKING AT YOU, GOVERNMENTS!
In the papers, all the horror stories about the conditions inside the city, described in lurid detail, were only shared to highlight what the Paladians had been saved from, rather than as an admonishment of what they’d been left to endure.
The parallels are obvious.
If he’s a monster, then I’m his creator.”
