Silence filled the ruined throne room. Atheline stood among them without truly seeing any of them anymore.
His mind was somewhere else.
The book, the original story.
He hadn't thought about its events this deeply in a long time. His arrival had changed too much and his relationship with Lilith had changed too much.
People who should have become enemies were allies. Events that should have happened never occurred while others happened completely differently.
He had stopped viewing the world as a novel because, to him, it wasn't one anymore. It was simply his life, but this... Atheline looked at Lilith.
The villainess who went to war with the world. The woman everyone feared. The Queen history would presumably remember as cruel, unstable and dangerous.
The book had shown consequences. It had shown actions, perhaps it had even shown enough of her past to make readers understand pieces of her hatred.
But had it shown this?
