Betrayed soul’s vengeance
And with that, turned and vanished, leaving me alone in the lavish room—a room now that seemed more akin to a gilded cage.
I breathed deeply, attempting to shake my head into reality from the whirlpool of identity, obligation, and terror. And the subsequent silence afterward that recalled with it a breathy, remembered remnant of what we were. "Don't let them break you, Jasmine. You've always been a fighter." It hurt and comforted me—a memory of what I was, or what I remained to be somehow, in some hidden core of self.
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