And in her life, she found the perfect death, a way to drown out the pain, a way to let go.

In her crazy, upside down world, she needed someone like that. A rock that would keep her going, an anchor to keep her from drifting away. Instead, she was alone

In her crazy, upside down world, she needed someone like that. A rock that would keep her going, an anchor to keep her from drifting away. Instead, she was alone.

For so long, I kept her on a pedestal," he says, "holding her in the highest regard. I think it was because of how high I raised her, how high we all raised her, that I couldn't see her for what she is. Turns out my admiration only serves the show, the act, the game she's playing with all of us. With the entire Land of Five. Now that I see past it, all of it, it's clear. She's poison masquerading as medicine.

Silence reveals everything.

Inside, she was a pane of glass, two seconds before it hits the floor. A flash of beauty bound for destruction, and when the impact would come, she would not be able to fix herself.

She wouldn't even get the chance to say a proper goodbye. If he died before she returned, her last memory of him would be this one.

No use in fearing the monsters under your bed when you've become them.