The Revenge of One Humiliated
I return to my window, I look at the city, I look at the falling snow, I look at what I have built, what I have destroyed, what I have become, and I wonder, for the first time since I began this vengeance, if this was what I wanted, if this was what I was seeking, if this is power—this immense solitude, this absolute void, this total absence of everything that made me a living person.
In the silence of my office, in the silence of my victory, in the silence of my defeat, I hear Matha's voice from six years ago, when I arrived at her place with nothing, with no one, just a round belly and a head full of nightmares. I hear her voice telling me: "Vengeance, my dear, is like poison. It never kil