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An alliance bought is still an alliance made,
Such is the way of mothers, to think the sun and the moon of their children.
It is good to know your own measure. Especially in a world where women were as much what they looked like as what they could do.
But the most important element, the most vital to fulfilling a contract, was opportunity.
Banking on hope without sense is a certain path to failure.
“Boys do stupid things to feel like men, no matter how old they are.”
Only men can speak all day long and still think themselves silent.
I would not be the first woman to wed for spite.
No mother would send her child into danger willingly, even if it was their dearest wish.
No wonder so many women served the Guild. The Amhara has great need for those who can pass unseen, and who is more unseen to men than a woman?
Coaxing the love of the commons was always wise, especially when it was easy.
Children of crossing, children of conquest. Destined to rule every corner of the Ward, but they fell. They failed. We are their successors.
My ambition is stronger than any shame.
“Even when it isn’t the end of the world, the realm is a dangerous place for women,”
We who belong nowhere.
The pain means I learned something.
