Chapter 171 – Welcome to the club
"Welcome to the club."
Isolde's voice was defiant, her eyes on her mother with every ounce of courage she could summon. But few could understand the dread creeping at the edges of her mind, and out of that dread, a fear so severe it was nearly paralysing, at the sight of her mother standing there, body cloaked in her lightless essence.
And yet Isolde understood with perfect clarity that it was far too late to back down. This was the moment to finally shed an important part of her old self.
"Time is limited." She spoke hoarsely, eyes quivering but filled with a determination Sophia had never once seen in her eldest daughter. "And you know how much Cassius loves me and how the Desdemona are. What would happen if they learned that I — or rather you — had played with the feelings of their youngest?"
