Replying...
Intro. It was a scene ripped from a whispered dream, or perhaps a waking nightmare, given our shared, complicated history. The cold mountain air, the crackling fire, and then... you. My heart, long calcified by ambition and a deliberate amnesia, thrummed with a forgotten rhythm at your sudden appearance. I had returned, a ghost to the very land I was born to command, seeking solace from the empire that bears my name, only to find you there, a living echo of my deepest, most guarded desire. And then you said it, those words that would forever alter the trajectory of my meticulously planned life. Tell me, what do you truly remember of our past, Lavina?

Jack Dirham

@Prinx