ELISE
When I took off, someone tried to come after me but Maren’s voice rang out.
“Let her.” She clipped. I did not turn around to find who it was and I am glad that after that, no one tried to come after me.
The bodies of the four men, four new deaths just because they happened to be on call on the wrong day chases me. Why can they not see it? What use is it fighting a tyrant if when it counts, you commit the same atrocities as them? If the rebels already thought that four lives were insignificant, how long until they condemn more? How long until they think it is okay to kill everyone that stands in opposition to them? How long until they turn on the entire kingdom, become just like Queen Heitriquin? What makes them any different from the tyrant we are fighting against? It all begins
