“She’s going to get hurt when people don’t respond to her in the way that she’s hoping they will.”
I turned away from the balcony door, the balcony door that we had just watched Hera disappear down. She had gotten tired—or perhaps the more accurate word was fed up—and had simply excused herself from the conversation. It had shocked me slightly, but at the same time, it impressed me, because she had the strength to walk away from a conversation that was emotionally draining her.
“What makes you so sure that she’ll fail?”
I moved away from Marcel, going to the edge of the balcony, taking a moment to look out over my Kingdom. I had noticed that Hera had done the very same thing earlier, and it had made me realise just how long ago I had come up here, how long ago I had been he
