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Not even Olya could force a conversation at breakfast. No matter how much she poked and prodded, no one rose to her bait.
"You slouch," she murmured, her voice light but from a mile away you could see the malicious glint in her eyes.
Yet, I could not muster up the energy to care, not while Dmitri's words were still playing in my head. I had been accused of things I had never been guilty of more times than I could count.
Ajax and Charlotte being at the scene of the crime most of the time.
Dmitri's words stung so much because they were TRUE. He forced me to face a fact that I would have preferred to never confront.
"...cursed mantle of obligation to those monsters..."
I physically flinched.
Thankfully, I didn't choke.
Olya continued into the void because no one paid her mind until she wore herself out and chose to eat in silence.
