"Those soldiers. They wanted to prove their loyalty to Astrana, to its king and to you."
I couldn't feel anything else except for my heart going numb. I couldn't see anything except for the man wearing the black uniform and armour looking at me as if his whole world was shattering with every teardrop.
"Why am I so stupid, Victor?" I finally asked him, unable to take my eye off him. "I don't deserve this. I don't deserve loyalty. I don't deserve you," my eyes which wildly wandered the surroundings finally halted on his face.
He was looking at me, unwaveringly like he always does. It had always been like this, wasn't it? It was only me when it came to wavering. He knew what he wanted and never wavered in his stand. Let it be love, let it be loyalty.
"You need to trust me," he repeated the words he told me a few days ago when there was a debate going on in the hall about Rangers. About the Eastern border.
