☉NARIEL
No wonder he’d made my mother pay such a price that night, a life for a life— blood for blood. No wonder he claimed I owned a debt, but I can never pay it all – not like this. I could never fully repay in this manner, being treated with acceptance and protection instead of enduring torment for my mother's deeds— her crimes.
“What could you possibly have to be sorry about?” He leaned languidly against the ancient contraption. "It was not your hand that struck her down. That was your mother's doing, a deed for which you need not shoulder the weight of guilt."
“But—I was used as bait, as a means to lure and ensnare her. All this time, I was oblivious to the truth, ignorant of the depths of my mother's depravity. And Myrrh—”
The name felt like a boulder on my tongue. She had been
