Single for Eternity

I stepped out of Laura’s room, her silence still hanging in the air like a blade waiting to drop.

She hated me.

Or at least, she thought she did.

But hate without reason? That wasn’t real hatred. It was just misplaced emotion, a desperate attempt to make sense of a world that had already crushed her.

I had no intention of convincing her otherwise.

Let them hate me.

They’d either adapt... or break.

And if they broke, they weren’t worth keeping around.

—–

The castle halls were eerily silent as I made my way to the main chamber. It was too silent, as if the entire place had been abandoned.

That wouldn’t do.