The Villainess They Made
The comb disappears into the dark below, toward the shimmering veil of the Forbidden Zone.
I realise, with a calm that does not belong to a dying woman, that I will follow it.
Liam tilts my face up to his. He does this gently, with one hand, the way you tilt a lover's face to kiss her. His blue-and-purple scales are flecked now with my blood. His silver-tipped fins catch the last of the twilight the way the comb did. He is beautiful. He has always been beautiful. I hate him with a depth I did not know I had, because I am, or I have been, a queen who kneels in the market to sing babies to sleep and who has been told all seven months of her reign that she is too soft for this throne.
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