The orcs threatened me with chains, never knowing that I was trembling with the newness of freedom. For almost a day I’ve been burdenless, freed of obligation, free to fall into fear and let it take me like a friendly, treacherous current into the darkness I crave.
But you have come, with song and bitter hope, and the end of the dreams I’d barely begun to dream. How can you be so strong and weak? How can you be so cruel and gentle? Just once, couldn’t you have disobeyed me?
I am bound again by a single link of gold.
But you have come, with song and bitter hope, and the end of the dreams I’d barely begun to dream. How can you be so strong and weak? How can you be so cruel and gentle? Just once, couldn’t you have disobeyed me?
I am bound again by a single link of gold.