[That she intends to carry through with her decision unapologetically inspires a flicker of admiration, though unexpressed.
He hadn’t rued giving the pious countrymen of Valachia greater reason to fear and despise him. They had decided he was a threat from the start and created a monster, panicking when it had wheeled on them first. And there was no going back. He had embraced that path of destruction in place of forcing himself to forgive those who had and would never see anything but a strigoi in him, a creature in league with the devil.
But they were right, weren’t they?
He was a devil who could tear into someone in a vengeful fury without a shred of regret. He had done it for years. And more than a small part of him had enjoyed it. The pleading screams; the adrenaline pumping and powering him forward; the coppery tang of blood as he'd lick clean the edges of his blades.]
For your own sake... I should hope you do not come to regret your choice.
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He hadn’t rued giving the pious countrymen of Valachia greater reason to fear and despise him. They had decided he was a threat from the start and created a monster, panicking when it had wheeled on them first. And there was no going back. He had embraced that path of destruction in place of forcing himself to forgive those who had and would never see anything but a strigoi in him, a creature in league with the devil.
But they were right, weren’t they?
He was a devil who could tear into someone in a vengeful fury without a shred of regret. He had done it for years. And more than a small part of him had enjoyed it. The pleading screams; the adrenaline pumping and powering him forward; the coppery tang of blood as he'd lick clean the edges of his blades.]
For your own sake... I should hope you do not come to regret your choice.