navani and raboniel were really something else. honestly yeah what if we were two enemy queens on a chessboard ππ what if you sieged my tower and ingratiated yourself as my lab partner but your respect made me begin trusting myself again ππ what if we worked together to learn I misunderstood you and you misunderstood me ππ (i'm not a scholar, i just kept accidentally being the Leading Cause of New Inventions for the last six years ) ππ what if i took your hands and asked you to look in your heart and find peace but you pulled awayππ what if you dedicated a song to me and gave me a high title of honor among your peopleππwhat if i forgot that my people needed me and just kept trying to understand you but what if ππ you ruined me ππ and as i lost myself you taught me the secrets to the universe, and you softly asked, 'what are we doing?' ππ you were there in the cacophony of my madness ππ 'ingenious,' you said ππ but god forbid what if you gave me a single moment of rest and i used it to try and kill you, though a 'treasonous part of me was glad you had not died' ππ i helped you grieve your daughter as i knew to grieve my son ππ what if at the end of it all, with my city falling around me, you let me go, and that was your mistake ππ what if you unlocked a monster in me that is unnacceptable ππ i spring a trap that catches us both, that tortures us both, but as you cry, paralyzed, i have enough practice with this pain to pull away and grit my teeth-- 'i'm sorry...i'm...sorry...but next time...try...not...to be... so...trusting'-- ππ in your dying breath you tell me all you ever cared about was peace, and you want your side to win but mostly you want the war to end--after all that you beg me to run--to take our research and leaveβafter all thatβ
you
STILL
think
Iβm
worthy?


















