Status Updates From Once Was Willem

“It is a hard thing to be burned. I will say no more than that. It is a hard thing and a bitter thing to be burned by those you thought of as your friends and neighbours, those to whom you gave the care of your heart and the cunning of your hands.” 😭😭😭

“In her desperate need, she cried out for a protector and a protector came - then a second, and in due course a third… they were the champions she had crafted in her imaginings as she laid on her sick-bed. They wore the faces of her three brothers, but they shone as bright as candle flames in the darkness.” 😭😭