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You betrayed me, Cezelia.*
Yes, Drayven… I did. But you betrayed me first.
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How? What did I do that you stand there now and watch me forced to bow at their mercy? I know you’re watching…
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I can’t help but watch, because even now, you are beautiful.
Surrounded by shadows in an alleyway strewn with trash, you arch back on your knees, bathed in the light of their torches. The radiance from those flames illuminates the tattoos that cover your skin. The ink forms chains around your neck and coils and twines down your arms in shapes of dragons, weapons and calligraphy that disappear beneath the waistline of your pants.
Torchlight gleams on your hair. In the glow, its strands are the color of bruises.
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I feel you standing in the shadows as I kneel before my foes...