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But it only takes a crack in the foundation of the world to bring careful architecture, strong with centuries, crumbling down. A small blade cuts the water and ripples outward like an echo. And then the world beneath shows itself, first as green shoots in the dirt. And then comes a woman, a witch, tearing her way through the green matter with her teeth.

"Was it worth it, your vengeance?"
If she were a man, he would not ask her this. For men there is no debt of blood which goes unpaid. If the world tips in another's favor, it must be made to tip back again. But the world is never in a woman's favor. She cannot tip the scale. The only choice is: live the same mute, unjust life you have always lived, or tear apart the world itself.

Roscille will never stop marveling at the stupidness of men when the order of their world is disrupted.

“I have seen what mortal men can do. I prefer a monster that shows itself openly.”

Perhaps it is not cleverness that seeps through the generations but cruelty. One cold creature weaning another.