❛ IF THEY CANNOT SURVIVE, LET THEM DIE ❜
Children born into the shadows of war are never quite right. It is a truth that Vasily Aleksandrov has always known. He has never known peace, though he longed for it.
The Old Gods did not give privy to thos...
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❛ I have always been hungry, greedy and insatiable for something I could not attain. I do not feel warm, I feel cold and hollow as though my belly has been emptied. desperation has consumed me. ❜
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❛ men have sought to contain me, to control me. they sought pleasure from my lips and snarled when poison was pressed into the folds of their mouths. I am not delicate, Vasya. I am not soft and sweet, I am a Dog and I will bite the hand that feeds me. ❜
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❛ I am not one of your southern ladies, Dmitri. I am not prim and proper. I am a Al Mirtha woman, and we are born with fire in our bellies and iron in our veins. we do not kneel before any man. ❜
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❛ they will call me a traitor, one day. they will say I abandoned my duty to king and country, never knowing the truth that had long filled their bellies. ❜
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❛ one day, they will curse my name for all that I've done and they will say I destroyed my homeland for a false king, but I do not regret my actions. I will do it again, if I must, and more if given no option. ❜
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❛ little by little, my father's kingdom begins to crumble, and never once did I think that those pieces would fall onto me. I am not my father, Vasily. the crimes he has committed are not mines to atone for. ❜
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❛ war is not kind, my dear. it is not for those with soft hearts and warm hands; harden your heart, bare your teeth and snarl like the beast you are, girl, or find yourself thrown into a shallow grave. ❜
