And your solution to that was to come to me and call me a traitor. A fraud. A liar. A pet. A whore. You don't want to be part of someone else's story, but you have neatly placed me in the role of your enemy all on your own. Those are the parts of me you wish to see.
Continue your insults, if that's what makes you feel better about your own fate. It's nothing I have not heard a hundred times before. But don't expect me to lay down and take it.
[ it hardly matters, zoya tells herself. it has never mattered until she has wanted those titles to matter — insults, twisted to her advantage. if the little palace would believe her to be a prized whore, she would play the doe-eyed whore. if they believed her to be their enemy, she would revel in their fear.
i thought you were my friend, she hears alina's voice chime. so had zoya, until now, but lamenting it changes nothing. ]
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You don't want to be part of someone else's story, but you have neatly placed me in the role of your enemy all on your own. Those are the parts of me you wish to see.
Continue your insults, if that's what makes you feel better about your own fate. It's nothing I have not heard a hundred times before.
But don't expect me to lay down and take it.
[ it hardly matters, zoya tells herself. it has never mattered until she has wanted those titles to matter — insults, twisted to her advantage. if the little palace would believe her to be a prized whore, she would play the doe-eyed whore. if they believed her to be their enemy, she would revel in their fear.
i thought you were my friend, she hears alina's voice chime. so had zoya, until now, but lamenting it changes nothing. ]