Chapter 126 - The Golden Cage - Part 5

"What you have to do," he repeated. His voice was flat. Dead. The voice of a man who had just watched something essential collapse inside himself and was still standing only because the rubble had not yet settled. "And what is that, my lady? What is so important that it requires you to stand in front of me and tell me that two years of my life — two years of loving you, of bleeding for you, of lying awake in this room waiting for you to come to me because the sound of your footsteps in the corridor was the only thing that made me feel like I existed — what is so important that it requires you to call that nothing?"