The Merciless Ones

She herself threw other girls on the metaphorical and even physical pyre. I should be used to it now, the way women sometimes betray other women, the way they align themselves with men, if only to guarantee their own safety, such as it is, but I can't fathom it.

And I am coming for the gods.

Everything we experience matters,” he says. “Not one thing outweighs the other.

All I can do now is move forward: ask questions instead of being afraid, take the actions I think are just instead of mindlessly following what others tell me. Be a better person – my own person.

If there's one thing the past few months have taught me, it's that I'm more capable than I ever knew. That I'm more than just the quiet, naive girl I was in Earfoot foolishly hoping for others to accept me when I couldn't accept myself. I've conquered armies. Battled gods. I know that I could do anything that I wished. And what I wished now was to become a god myself.