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You are not loved, therefore you wish to be feared. So you trample me underfoot, hoping that dread shall make you sublime in mine eyes. You see not that I have been emptied of such feelings. I shall never give you what you desire.
Tell me, my liege, how does it feel to know that your most loyal knight loathes you?
Duty is not a choice. It is a burden placed upon one's neck. The beast breaks the yoke, the crops fail, all begin to starve. The worthless beast is slaughtered for its flesh.
Had a near-death experience quickly followed by post-coital clarity. I, ah, may have witnessed the creation of the universe.
I do not love nor admire my liege. I do not believe them to be kind, just or wise. I find their actions repulsive and their soul corrupt.
But I have paid homage and thus will obey.
To extract blood is trivial. Something even a scared animal can do. To extract the right words is an art. Humans love to speak, but mostly banal, uninteresting things. One had to play around, nudge them in the right direction to get them the good words, the important words.
The being with arms too long and teeth too sharp clutched its prize with clawed fingers. Its eyes shone, but the woods around it remained dark.
Oh, nothing like the feeling of holding a new name in its grasp.
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I was young then, bright-eyed and hopeful. When the tip of the sword touched each of my shoulders, if thought there could be no greater happiness. A life of noble service with stalwart companions. I wonder if you had already everything planned out then. A nod of approval, a quiet chuckle. It was such a short time, but it didn't need to be longer for me to fall for it. And fall I did. When you turned on me and all semblance of kindness disappeared, I kept chasing that fleeting moment. Sometimes I wonder, did it ever happen? Did I invent it to justify my pursuit?
I don't quite know when I realized I'd been chasing shadows. It came after giving up hope that I could fix anything, that I remember. Then I started noticing how that made you change. Because, I later learned, I had ruined your clever little game. The game where you ruined me.
Would it that I could ruin your entire life in the same manner.
