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Goodness can hide amongst the bad, just as evil can wrap itself in righteousness.
“I will not listen to one more person discredit me in favour of a man.”
It is a strange thing, to be so filled with loss and heartbreak and wrath, all for the same person.
“If they took you from me,” he mutters, grappling with his mind as it slips back into its dark reprieve. “I will break them all.”
He woulda died regrettin’ his mistakes, just as yeh live regrettin’ yers.”
“We are all bad and good, are we not? The fools are the ones who try to separate the two.”
And he understands now, why wars are so often won and lost upon the promise of mercy, because here is his heart, wrenched outside of himself, twisting before him in the snow, and he’d give entire kingdoms to ease the torment.
“Did you know you are the only one I’ve ever… cared for?” he confesses, stumbling over the words. “Truly cared for, I mean. Worried for. Longed for. I thought of you… endlessly.”
“If it concerns Dawsyn, then I should know.” “Because you love her?” “Love is a trace of what I feel,” he snarls.
“Crippled by the blood debt of our Queen, and unwilling to pay the same dues twice.”
