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We need an Emperor who cares about us.”
I let out the breath I hadn’t known I’d been holding.
Oh look. Ugh.
Children understood life and death, though adults liked to think they didn’t.
“It’s hard to remake one’s view of the world, to admit to complacency. I thought remaking myself for you was hard enough, but doing that was something I wanted. I didn’t want to realize how much I’ve hurt the people around me, and that’s what confronting my beliefs meant. We all tell ourselves stories of who we are, and in my mind, I was always the hero. But I wasn’t. Not in all the ways I should have been.
