“I have seen everything they have done to you in that dungeon. Every beating. Every humiliation. Every. Single. Rape. And I love you no less for it. I admire your strength! I want you no less for it, Lorn, don’t you understand?” “No, you don’t understand!” she hissed. “Just because you saw doesn’t mean you understand. But he does. He does, because he knows what it felt like to lie beneath them, completely powerless, while they—”

