I suppose, in a way I still do. We had been dancing around each other for so long, Hayame. She was my Jailor, my guide. She gave me a lead of rope and gave me the tools — and then watched me fashion a noose of this same rope.
I watched her cut herself time, and time again, and then...
In the end I would not let her do so again. She killed me again, instead.
[ It was so complicated. Hard. They could never have been, really. Perhaps there had been the potential, before Liesse. Not after she turned Catherine's own people into the undead legions, and used even more of them as power for her weapon. ]
She was supposed to live her life, after that. I had... something new to do. I could not guarantee that we would see each other again, after I died.
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I suppose, in a way I still do. We had been dancing around each other for so long, Hayame. She was my Jailor, my guide. She gave me a lead of rope and gave me the tools — and then watched me fashion a noose of this same rope.
I watched her cut herself time, and time again, and then...
In the end I would not let her do so again. She killed me again, instead.
[ It was so complicated. Hard. They could never have been, really. Perhaps there had been the potential, before Liesse. Not after she turned Catherine's own people into the undead legions, and used even more of them as power for her weapon. ]
She was supposed to live her life, after that. I had... something new to do. I could not guarantee that we would see each other again, after I died.