He wants to believe that playing by the monarchy’s rules will keep us safe, but nothing can protect us when those rules are rooted in hate.
Our lack of power and our oppression are one and the same, Inan. Without power we’re maggots. Without power the monarchy treats us like scum!
Magic slithers inside me. Venomous, like a thousand spiders crawling over my skin. It wants more of me.
Safe ended a long time ago.