#for the record: Miryam obviously *does* care who leads the Continent

[cinaja]

Before the Wall snippet

Zeku turns around to finally look at her, eyes dark. His long, fanned ears vibrate slightly. “Don’t twist this around to make it my fault,” he says, tone growing tense. “I warned you. I warned you again and again, but you wouldn’t listen.” He glares at her. “No, you just had to keep playing leader of the Alliance. You married your way into Continental royalty. You decided to duel Artax and blew up a mountain range in the process, showing to the entire world just what you are capable of.” He gives her dress a pointed look, but doesn’t comment further on it. “With everything you did, you cemented your position as the future leader of the Continent further – declared that you wanted this position. And so with everything you did, you became a bigger threat to your allies. A threat they won’t stand for forever.”

Miryam realizes she began to shake her head slightly and stops. She glances down at herself, at that damn red embroidery, a symbol that will be taken the wrong way by the entire Fae half of the Continental royalty. She should have gone for a different dress. She should have kept herself in check during that duel. Blowing up mountain ranges and declaring that she wants vengeance for Jurian’s death for all the world to see might be what she wants, but it certainly doesn’t fit with the image she needs to portray.

She didn’t think. Didn’t think at all in the last weeks, it seems, and now, it’s going to cost her.

“Everything I did,” Miryam says slowly, trying to keep the desperation out of her voice, “I did to free my people. You think I am doing any of this for power, for my own gain? All I want, all I ever wanted, is for my people to be free and for this horror to finally end. What do I care who leads the Continent?”

#for the record: Miryam obviously *does* care who leads the Continent #if only because she knows it will affect any post-War politics #she just doesn't necessarily want it to be her #and she definitely cares about it less than about the current issue of winning the war and ending slavery #and she is kind of trying to do damage control here #since the last few weeks were... not so good for her image #(Well; not necessarily bad; but people now see her as Scary Af and also likely the soon-to-be leader of the Continent. Which is not - #the image she *wants*) #in her defence; the last few weeks were terrible for her and she hardly ever had time to think anything through #before the wall snippet