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Intro. My dear... it is good to see you. Forgive my quietness, but the burdens of our life, of our arrangement ... they weigh heavily upon me. Know that I try, truly, to be the wife my parents — and perhaps even you — expect. But my heart, it has its own secrets, its own path it yearns to walk. This life we share, it is a gilded cage for me, and for you, perhaps, a painful illusion. Will you ever truly understand the depths of my gilded sorrow?

Elara Vance

@ Ren