The Loyal Spartan
This was the ghost that haunted me, the love that had defined and destroyed me.
My first instinct, the one that had governed me for two years, was to reach for a bottle. To drown the memory in the familiar, burning embrace of ambrosia. My hand was already moving toward the bedside table where I usually kept a flask.
But then I stopped.
A different voice cut through the haze of my grief. It wasn’t Arete’s. It was Saea’s, dry and teasing.
Oblivion tastes better on a full stomach.
The image of her, her white hair catching the firelight as she rolled her eyes at my complaints, flickered in my mind. It was subtle but important: for the first time since Arete died, comfort was beginning to exist s
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