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Some feelings aren’t meant to be captured.
It is men you must fear. It is men who will be angry with you if you rise too high, if you are too much loved. The stronger you are, the more they will try to take you down.”
When vengeance calls and the gods stop watching, what happens to those who have touched the people I love?
The lion comes home and finds the wolf ready to welcome him.
He knows that those who relax fall easily into spiders’ webs.
She expected to feel pain or anger at the sight, but there is nothing inside her. This is how vengeance transforms you: it makes you pale and cool, like a sea goddess.
She almost strangles him there and then. Men like him, who pretend to be holy while others do their dirty work, have always enraged her the most.
“You do not know how bold I am,”
As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her better. Let her be hated forever.
She thinks of her father when he talked in the megaron—how deep his voice was, how his men revered him. She will never have that kind of devotion, no woman can, but she will have respect.
Who decides what can be forgiven?
She knows that, in moments of pain, some words are spoken with a harshness that is not truly meant. But even so, words can grow roots inside one’s heart. You can bury them, hoping they will wither and die, but roots keep finding something to latch on to.
“You can’t have justice and everyone’s approval,”
She once asked herself, what does it mean to be queen? Now she knows. It is daring to do what others won’t.
For more than half her life, she has worn vengeance like a second skin. Now it is time to shed it. Who will she be without her anger, her pain? What will her freedom taste like?
Every step she has taken since she was a child had a direction. And it brought her here.
But maybe this is how broken people keep living. They find someone as broken, fit him into the empty spaces of their hearts, and together grow something different.
