“this is extremely stupid of me — but so has everything else that i’ve done and accomplished in the past few weeks. but i can’t stand it. the echo of silence that rings in my ears. it makes everything hurt a little worse. i should have just killed him and taken her. at least injured him severely enough, put all the pain that he’s put onto me back onto him, and ripped the rest of his heart out. he doesn’t deserve her, he never did. the king upon his filthy throne was the biggest fool of all — he never wanted me to fall for anything, but he made us both fall the second she entered this undeserving world. how was I supposed to keep a stone heart when she took it into her little hands? how could I? I never deserved her, either. and I left her. I will always, always hate myself for that. after trying all this time to protect her from the world, I still failed her. I’ve tried to convince myself that if I had left with her, that he would have followed after, for her. he would have done anything to kill me. i can barely make it by on my own, and i’d make her suffer living by ourselves. but not even these considerations will silence the nightmares, night after night, that something terrible might happen, that she might end up dead because of me. I left her in the hands that I’ve always despised, hands I have and never will trust. I was selfish, and I’ll never forgive myself.”