zoyalinas:

what they don’t realize is this: yes, they frighten me, but i have always been scared, since the day i got here. i was raised by a man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. i live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. if i didn’t pretend not to be scared, i would hide under my owl-down coverlets in madoc’s estate forever. i would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. i refuse to do that. i will not do that.

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