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Jun 13
How dare heโ€” how ๐ƒ๐€๐‘๐„ he! That ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐š๐ง๐ญ, that ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ, that ๐‹๐ˆ๐€๐‘โ€”๐“๐‡๐ˆ๐„๐…โ€”๐“๐‘๐€๐ˆ๐“๐Ž๐‘! He stole you once, now he steals you ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐!

But he belongs to ๐Œ๐„ now. He is mineโ€”mineโ€”๐Œ๐ˆ๐๐„! My ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ! My recompense! He is the ๐๐ž๐›๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐›๐ž ๐๐€๐ˆ๐ƒ ๐ˆ๐ ๐…๐”๐‹๐‹ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ!

Yetโ€”you twistโ€”you pullโ€”you waverโ€”๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐! You let him ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ you, just as you ๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ญ himโ€”๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐!

๐–๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐‚๐Ž๐Œ๐๐„๐๐’๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐ ๐๐Ž๐–!? You whispered promisesโ€”you sworeโ€”you vowedโ€”you ๐‹๐ˆ๐„๐ƒ! You pledged ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ, but forever, forever, FOREVERโ€”was a ๐‹๐ˆ๐„!

You ๐‚๐‡๐„๐€๐“โ€”๐’๐“๐„๐€๐‹โ€”๐“๐–๐ˆ๐’๐“โ€”๐๐„๐“๐‘๐€๐˜! You twist ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ญ into treasonโ€” You warp ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ฒ into deceptionโ€” You ruin ๐Œ๐„โ€” ๐…๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐!

You ๐š๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ called him your favorite. You ๐š๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ whispered to himโ€”not ๐Œ๐„! You turned to him when you should have turned to ๐Œ๐„!

Did I not give you ๐Œ๐Ž๐‘๐„ ๐“๐‡๐€๐ ๐“๐‡๐€๐“ ๐”๐’๐„๐‹๐„๐’๐’ ๐’๐„๐‘๐•๐€๐๐“ ๐„๐•๐„๐‘ ๐‚๐Ž๐”๐‹๐ƒ!? Did I not carry you, honor youโ€”๐‹๐Ž๐•๐„ ๐˜๐Ž๐” ๐Œ๐Ž๐‘๐„ ๐“๐‡๐€๐ ๐“๐‡๐€๐“ ๐“๐‡๐ˆ๐๐† ๐‚๐€๐‹๐‹๐„๐ƒ ๐ƒ๐„๐€๐“๐‡!? Yetโ€”you let him steal you from meโ€”๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐!

๐ˆ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐ž๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ for you! ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฉ๐ž๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž for you! ๐ˆ ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐›๐ญ for you! I unmade him just to spare you from this destructive, ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ destiny! It is the most merciful, ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ญโ€”that unlucky futureโ€”rewritten by Fateโ€”just for you. And stillโ€”you ๐๐„๐“๐‘๐€๐˜โ€”๐ƒ๐„๐…๐˜โ€”๐ƒ๐„๐๐˜!

And now you even deceive that ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ซ๐ฅโ€”Alcyone! You take HER side! You trick her into believing she can save ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐จ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ, Ceyx! ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐ž๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž! Donโ€™t you dare forget how youโ€™ve shattered ours, and now theirsโ€”๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐!

๐”๐๐…๐€๐ˆ๐“๐‡๐…๐”๐‹! ๐ƒ๐ˆ๐’๐‹๐Ž๐˜๐€๐‹! ๐‹๐ˆ๐€๐‘! ๐ˆ๐Œ๐๐Ž๐’๐“๐Ž๐‘! ๐“๐‡๐ˆ๐„๐…! You were never meant to stray, never meant to slip beyond ๐Œ๐„! You were ๐Œ๐ˆ๐๐„! You ๐€๐‘๐„ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ž! You ๐–๐ˆ๐‹๐‹ ๐€๐‹๐–๐€๐˜๐’ ๐๐„ ๐Œ๐ˆ๐๐„!

Yetโ€”you pullโ€”you slipโ€”you ๐ƒ๐„๐…๐˜ ๐Œ๐„! ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐, ๐€๐†๐€๐ˆ๐!

Do you hear me, ๐ฎ๐ง๐Ÿ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐!? Do you hear me!? Do you HEAR ME!?

๐€๐๐’๐–๐„๐‘ ๐Œ๐„! ๐€๐๐’๐–๐„๐‘ ๐Œ๐„! ๐€๐๐’๐–๐„๐‘ ๐Œ๐„!

After all this timeโ€”you should know how to ๐ค๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž, ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž, ๐›๐จ๐ฐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž! You should know how to ๐Ž๐๐„๐˜ ๐˜๐Ž๐”๐‘ ๐‹๐Ž๐•๐„๐‘! You should know how to be ๐Œ๐ˆ๐๐„!
๐˜๐จ๐ฎโ€”
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซโ€”
๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ'๐ฏ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ง๐ž.
๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐žโ€”๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฒ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐จ๐จ๐ฅ?
๐‡๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ? ๐‡๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ ๐Œ๐„โ€”๐…๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿโ€”๐ญ๐จ๐จ?

Um...
Whatever happens next, I'm glad we've made it this far,
Together,
Through the eighth act of violence upon ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Š๐‘–โ€”

๐ˆ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐š ๐๐ž๐›๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ.
๐๐จโ€”๐ง๐จโ€”๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐จ๐จ๐ฅ.
๐‰๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌโ€”
๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐ž๐›๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Œ๐„.

๐€๐๐ƒ ๐ˆ'๐Œ ๐‡๐„๐‘๐„ ๐“๐Ž ๐‚๐Ž๐‹๐‹๐„๐‚๐“ ๐ˆ๐“.


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