The recollection of a past that brought them to this horrible preset hurt, and no, it wasn't just Zarinah in pain today.
Everyone could feel her pain as a mother.
They could understand her.
They were empathetic with her and at some point wanted to hug her, but she had ruined their families too.
They wanted to make everything make sense, but none of this would ever justify the fact that she had rebelled and lost everything in the process. That is what the people of Alexei had spent the past years knowing. That the falci had gone rogue.
The falci had broken her promises to Alexei.
The falci had done this and that.
It was all about the falci when it was they who had made her into what she was today. Zarinah knew this wasn't the time for her to get emotional. There was more to life than regretting the past, but was she regretting it?
