That had not been at all what Liliana had been assuming the answer would be when told that an enclave of dead kings had blinded him.
"That certainly explains the addition of 'tragically' to your loyalty," she murmured. She reached for his face again, cupping it between gentle palms, and leaned in to brush cool lips to the corner of each cloudy eye. Had she ever been that loyal? To anyone outside of herself?
No, never. And never would, either.
But, for once, Liliana didn't immediately think of how to use that loyalty for her own ends. She would get there, because that is who she was, but for this briefest moment, she was perhaps more of the girl she had been, back when she'd been a cleric fostering with Lady Ana, and less of the woman she'd become in the decades since. "Perhaps they weren't showing you mercy, but the world that would be less for your loss instead."
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"That certainly explains the addition of 'tragically' to your loyalty," she murmured. She reached for his face again, cupping it between gentle palms, and leaned in to brush cool lips to the corner of each cloudy eye. Had she ever been that loyal? To anyone outside of herself?
No, never. And never would, either.
But, for once, Liliana didn't immediately think of how to use that loyalty for her own ends. She would get there, because that is who she was, but for this briefest moment, she was perhaps more of the girl she had been, back when she'd been a cleric fostering with Lady Ana, and less of the woman she'd become in the decades since. "Perhaps they weren't showing you mercy, but the world that would be less for your loss instead."