-Sykesxx
The world was never a place where you could caress a rose without being cut by its thorns.
Ninety-seven years ago, humanity finally lost its way. It became consumed by borders, hatred, and aimless footsteps, concerned with nothing more than surviving one more day. In its selfishness, it ultimately destroyed itself. A nuclear war swept everything away; citizens, soldiers, and kings vanished alike.
And yet, humanity rose again from the ashes. As though the gods had granted it one final chance, convinced it could still become something better. But even after cheating extinction, humanity remained blinded by the very same veil that had once led it to the edge of the abyss.
Death, blood, and steel became law once more. The world seemed doomed to repeat the very history that had once destroyed it.
Amid that endless cycle, two young women carried the weight of mistakes they had never made, yet had inherited like a curse.
Guilt. Pain. Duty.
Muriel learned to survive long before she learned who she was, and Lexa learned to rule long before she learned how to feel.
When their spirits finally cross paths, they begin, almost without realizing it, to swim against the current. To question the world that shaped them, and to discover that there is something beyond war, fear, and scars.
But breaking a cycle that has been writing itself for generations always demands a price.
What could make someone choose to pay it?
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"Love is weakness," she says. What a damn lie. She chooses to make it a weakness. Because look at me, everyone, watch what I am about to do in the name of love, and then try to tell me I was weak."