The Sunspire I got a heart like a truck

he took her words into consideration. "i met satsu. once before she was queen, and once after." and how cold she had become. he could not have initially suspected her of having any such enemies. "i cannot think of what she might have done."

but power had a way of changing things and others for the worst.

fennec had dealt in death. he tried to think of this moment and failed, for it seemed intimate, this memory his new wife now shared with him.

and he was not sure what to make of it or why she had spoken of it at all. and yet germanicus was grateful in a way he did not understand,

"did she succeed?" came in the next roll of his voice, steady and without judgement. and yet he wondered if such heathenry might come to mereo. he could not abide it then.