Like Icarus, Empress Yū Miko flew too close to the sun. She thought she was invincible until the wax melted from her wings. But she was too busy enjoying her flight to even notice.
Pride does that, it blinds you to your own demise—it scorched her eyes. Before she knew it, she was crashing down toward the angry sea wherein a fierce dragon awaited to devour her.
She never expected neither damnable proof of her crimes, nor for the Emperor to have pulled the wool over her eyes the past fifteen years.
Hours earlier, she had broke down in tears in front of the Emperor in an attempt to subdue him. It had been more than enough that he caused her intricate make-up to smudge, and... that he also had to further provoke me! by shockingly trying to choke me!
She was pacing like an hungry lioness stuck in a cage.
