Finally, after getting somewhere with all this discussion, I stood up. Water had submerged the better part of my lower legs, drenching my boots and pants.
"Yuan… I don't want this pointless slaughter to go on anymore. White Feather is my person… and so are you. What are you going to do about it?"
She folded her hands tightly and looked down for a moment.
"I-If she's important to you, Lord Cade… then I can't do anything." She released a thin smile. "Besides, I'm slightly disappointed in myself now that I realize all of this might have just been a curse driving my ego."
White Feather continued to look at Yuan. A moment later, she sighed and spoke as well, her voice hoarse.
"Even though I devised a way to survive all of this—taking a deathly chance of becoming inhuman — I have grown far more shrewd, doing shameful and inhumane things for the sake of protecting my clan. And this path… I hadn't noticed was simply the curse insidiously driving me as well."
