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Verso had thought himself prepared for this. He had rationalized what needed to be done - for it was a necessity - and he thought he'd made his peace with it. What was one more mark in a ledger already drenched in blood? But here, now, in the aftermath of a violence he is uncomfortably familiar with, he falters.
It had to be done, he tells himself. A lie, a justification. One that he has told so many times before that it has grown smooth and worn. It tastes bitter on his tongue.
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Or Maelle wins, Verso lives, and what comes after.