[ Because it's colored in the misery of their circumstance, of Akua's folly, and her attempts at redemption — and the fact that it wasn't something she could simply earn. There was no coming back from her path, as she'd learned, so how could love factor into it?
Did she love her, even still? Yes, but it was a complex love. It was not the simple things that they spoke of in stories, and attributed to knights. She was Praesi, and thus she could never be simple. ]
She was my rival before she was ally and warden. There is a certain kind of love in being enemies, too. I dreamed of dominating her for so long, that perhaps one could say that I loved her since we were only girls.
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[ Because it's colored in the misery of their circumstance, of Akua's folly, and her attempts at redemption — and the fact that it wasn't something she could simply earn. There was no coming back from her path, as she'd learned, so how could love factor into it?
Did she love her, even still? Yes, but it was a complex love. It was not the simple things that they spoke of in stories, and attributed to knights. She was Praesi, and thus she could never be simple. ]
She was my rival before she was ally and warden. There is a certain kind of love in being enemies, too. I dreamed of dominating her for so long, that perhaps one could say that I loved her since we were only girls.
[ Praesi.............. ]