[Ezra]
I never thought I would ever say this, much less accept it to myself, but Xanthea was anything but weak.
I was foolish to think she was a weak soul, that she needed me for her vengeance. All Xanthea needed was the space to be herself and a security that it was ok to be herself. She needed an introduction to who she truly was, and I was glad I could provide it to her.
I wanted to see her torture and kill that pathetic family of hers, use me to m******e them and hang their bodies for display before the world. But that was something ‘I’ wanted, not her.
But the path she chose had put me in a state of deep, thoughtful perplexity.
She knew exactly what she wanted, as though she had been dying to do everything she did today for years, but she never had a chance.
I certainly didn’t a
