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divinity will stain your fingers and mouth like a pomegranate. it will swallow you whole and spit you out, wine-dark and wanting. you will reach for it again and again, greedy human fingers clutching at everything you can reach.

play by the rules, for the gods are no fools.

shoulders were suddenly apparent , yet he was still standing in front of her . Nothing was behind her either .] You will not have me as your little puppet to string along . I played that role for far too long . Please . I-I have been good .

let’s strike first . it’s better than having to strike back .

i’m prepared to die for this mission , though i’d really rather not .

i’m the last thing they’ll see before they die . lucky them .

⠀do ⠀you ⠀know ⠀what ⠀itʹs ⠀like ⠀to ⠀𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 ⠀suffer .ᐣ ⠀to ⠀have ⠀to ⠀fight ⠀and ⠀fight ⠀until ⠀youʹre ⠀too ⠀𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 ⠀to ⠀go ⠀on .ᐣ

such familiarity towards me . [ overwhelming malice was like a lake , and she was drowning in it . Surrounding her in a cruel embrace . He knew . He knew *what* she is . And what linked them so cruelly together in a wretched string of fate .] Then— What do you think , Black ?

𝐌𝐘 𝐒͟𝐓͟𝐑͟𝐄͟𝐍͟𝐆͟𝐓͟𝐇͟ 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐄 𝐀 𝐒͟𝐇͟𝐈͟𝐄͟𝐋͟𝐃͟ 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 .ᐟ 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐇͟𝐔͟𝐌͟𝐀͟𝐍͟𝐈͟𝐓͟𝐘͟ .ᐟ

I cannot ! I cannot reach such levels again . Not here and not now . [ hooking her fingers over each other , biting her inner cheek as her pupils thin to pin pricks . An array of light started flickering to life behind her head , its ring starting to spin .] I am well aware—

It—it is wrong , I am not the sole being who is to decide the fate of all . A playground with nothing to admire or no one to share with is a lonely place . I have found my own forms of amusement in the short time I have stayed on this planet . [ Do not dwell on those thoughts—