I’d been a burden on her for our entire lives, I’d made it harder for her to make friends, meet boyfriends. My lack of trust in the world had forced her to hold herself back too. And when we’d come here, to the land which was always intended to be ours, I’d kept holding her back, shielding her from the world whenever I could and fighting it off whenever I had to. Would she have suffered half the things the Heirs had put her through without me there antagonising them at every turn? Or would she have found a way to peace so much sooner?
