It was just after I gifted you my ring that I wished I might take it all back, gather up it and my oath and tuck it back inside myself, never offered, never given. I can say to you with a conscience as clear as I can manage that the regret lasted only a moment as I assimilated my oath into my being. Only a moment as I looked at you and saw a courage and a beauty I remembered in others and yet wholly your own.
You had earned my fealty even as you and your fathers and sworn themselves to me in times past.
Yet still for that moment I regretted it and I was frightened for as I had ever felt the weight of my Doom it was only then that I felt it close itself around my chest like a cage and slowly, slowly press so that which each day I had less room to breath. In your courage and your beauty was my fall and in your rescue was my death. I knew it. I felt.
But only for a moment did I regret it.
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