Let Them Kneel
She turned her face away, eyes stinging, throat tight with the cry she wouldn’t let out.
And when she finally spoke, her voice sounded like it had been dragged from the depths of something dying.
“Why do you insist on twisting the blade that’s already lodged inside my heart?”
Time paused with him.
One heartbeat passed.
Then another—
each second falling like a stone.
When he finally spoke, his voice was deeper, woven with something that didn’t just echo through the clearing, but seemed to settle there.
“You keep that blade lodged in your chest,” he said, “as if your heart belongs to him.”
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