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he asked. I showed him and led his hand so he could find the blood spots. I thought it was better not to go out on the street with a guy who clearly looked like he butchered something… or someone. Maybe I supposed to be more concerned about it all. The speed at which I adapted to my current surroundings scared me. Maybe it was self-denying, maybe my mind chose to block the fact that I was dealing with people for whom human life was far less than sacred, but maybe… I was just getting used to it. They say that everyone carries their own darkness, it is simply our choice whether we would let it out or keep it locked. Mine, was clearly coming out on surface…

It wasn't that Ethan engaged in outright evil acts; he wasn't like many nobles who toyed with the lives of commoners, nor did he indulge in the vices of women or drugs. No, Ethan's vice lay in his propensity for destruction. When the urge to demolish took hold, he would become consumed by it, losing himself in the throes of his compulsion. In one such episode, he had accidentally taken the lives of several nobles, his mind clouded by the red mist of rage. It was a burden Ethan carried, a dark self that haunted his every waking moment. He knew that his actions, though unintentional, had caused immeasurable pain and suffering. The guilt had weighed heavily upon him, a constant reminder of the

"Dress in the black suit. The one that makes you look like you’re heading to a war room. Because when we walk down those stairs, that’s exactly where we’re going." As Roman walked out of the room to face his father, he realized the "Sinful Virtue" of the day: He was no longer protecting his family from her. He was protecting her from his family. And God help anyone who stood in his way.

The wasting sickness had stolen her strength, and the realm had stolen more, and yet she ran, because the alternative was to stop, and to stop was to be unmade. Beside her, Eva ran too, her grip on her mother's hand tight enough to bruise, her other hand clutching the guide's wrist. The guide—who had no name, who had never needed one until now—stumbled between them, his newly opened eyes blinking against the chaos of the collapsing world, his borrowed form struggling to maintain coherence in a reality that was losing its grip on the distinction between solid and void. He was weak. He was alive. And he was, for the first time in the uncountable span of his existence, afraid.