Queen Cassia;
I sit motionless on the edge of my bed, staring at absolutely nothing.
I've been this way since last night. Just… staring into nothingness as I spent the whole night crying. Since I cried the whole night away, I now have no tears left to cry.
The room is silent, painfully silent, the kind of silence that presses against your chest until you can barely breathe.
My eyes remain fixed on the floor as I feel my cold fingers coil and uncoil around each other. I have been sitting like this for… I don't know how long. Minutes. Hours…? It feels like a lifetime.
Everything inside me feels hollow… stripped away, carved out, eaten by a truth I never should have had to hear.
A truth that should have never been.
Wilhelm's words still echo in my head like a curse.
A secret.
A betrayal… A wound he chose to give me with his own hands.
I close my eyes, but the darkness behind my eyelids offers no comfort.
