Ethan broke formation to meet her alone.
Sophia slid off, and stood tall. The wind blew her cloak behind her ruffling it.
They charged at one another through a bruised sky, and the silence between them more intense than any battle hue.
"You came to threaten me?." she asked.
Ethan said, "I came to remind you about who I am."
He was weary. Not from traveling, but with the burden of his own wrath. His eyes, formerly full of fondness, of allurements, were now aglow with matrimonial impatience and hunger.
Sophia nodded her head as a rejection.
"I have not forgotten," she said.
The words smacked him as a blade. His expression twisted.
"Why him?" he asked. The question cracked from him like thunder. "Why not me?"
She didn’t flinch.
"Because he listens. Because he doesn't need to destro
