Page 113 of Royal Lies

“You lied to me.” She whispered.

I shook my head sadly, “That right there is the problem. You're too trusting, too naive. I can’t have that part of me live on. You’d give me too much hope and I can’t have hope, not where I’m headed.”

I reached out my hands like a viper. Wrapping my fingers around her pretty little neck as the cage disappeared. Her tears streamed down my hands as I watched the breath leave my other half. This will be the last time I'd see her, the last time we would ever meet again. “Fl-Fletcher will-” She began but I was already late on schedule. My new body was calling for me and like I said where I was going I didn’t need this side of me to come with me. She would hinder the necessary choices I needed to make. Eli sure fucked up a lot of things. For one I thought I'd killed this side of me a long, long, long time ago. Yet, here she was still chirping her merry songs.Welp, this just means I get a second shot at killing her.

“Fletcher will understand,” I shrugged as she shook her head, tears streaking down her face. I pitied her if just a little. She was the side of me where the Fae Realm was a glorious place to live filled with joy and laughter. It’s just that’s just one side of the Fae Realm, the side weaker fae wished to see.

I was not weak.

I can't be weak, and I can’t have mercy, for she is also mercy, she is the side of me that holds on- no clings on to hope, and second chances. I- No matter how much I wish I didn’t have to do this, I needed it for my future, for my court, for the realm… for them. I have played my cards. I have set things in motion. Iam already moving my chess pieces across the board. I can not stop now.

Sure Eli’s little play and Fletcher’s death placed a little wrench into those plans but I needed the crown and she couldn’t be with me when I was sitting atop the throne. I watched as one last sad tear traced down her cheek before her body dissipated into smoke and ash. It started from her head then her body slowly blew away from some unforeseen wind. I dusted off my hands of the black san. Turning I stared one last time backward to what? To a wish for a happy life, to a life where I didn't need to play the villain, or maybe as a goodbye to the part of me, I just killed.

I walked out towards the light at the end of this infinite shore and into a new life.

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Good.

Things were unraveling the exact way I had planned. Now all that’s left is for the King of Blood and Fire to free me, and he will. But, the timing needs to be right. I haven’t been giving him small little details for nothing.