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Calysian - I kill every soldier who approaches the village. Madinia doesn’t lift a finger. She merely watches with those sapphire eyes that see far too much. At one point when I glance in her direction, I catch her sharpening her nails.

And you are Madinia Farrow. A woman who was caught within a vicious dream. One that wasn’t truly a dream at all. For three years.

She was one of Regner’s Queens ladies maids

I woke centuries ago, naked and alone in a forest on a strange continent filled with people who wielded varying degrees of magic… someone had taken something from me. Something I desperately needed.

It’s not bravery. It’s a very particular kind of cowardice. It’s the refusal to be abandoned, even through death. My insistence on my own space, on seeing the world on my own terms, is tainted with hypocrisy. Leave me alone, but be available when I need you.