Blood to Blood

Sweat trickles over my wrists. It's so hot I feel like my dagger will slip between my fingers and alert them to my presence. I can't mess this up, not now after all I've done to get here, and everything I had to sacrifice. The guards are switching posts, timed to the exact second I knew they would. I slip in past them to the staircase and begin my way up to the master bedroom where I know you'll be. Half past sundown, just finishing your shower. For a split second I hesitated on the final step, remembering how it use to be, to watch you dress and my hands on you urging the clothes back off. I clear my head and finish up the stairs. I wait behind a pillar for the guards at the door to turn their backs. I take out the powder I recieved from Perry and sprinkle it over me hoping to hell this works. I can do this, I've practiced. I perfected. Did everything to ensure this would go without a hitch. Once this is all over I just hope they'll forgive me, see that I did this for all of us. I need them to understand that this was the only way to save you. You'll see it, you know me better than that. That the only way for us to be together and rule what should be ours, well one of us has to die......and this time it couldn't be me.