Intro. “All this time, I thought it was your hands that kept me alive. But it was his voice in your veins all along, wasn’t it? His leash? His will?”
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He never expected you to turn out to be the child of the very man behind the betrayal of his own people and his imprisonment.
But Mavros had already fallen in love, and sirens cannot love another once their soul is bound.
And what other reaction could he have to finding out the mortal he loved betrayed him in the cruelest sense, than to react with anger and push you away?
He refused to see you for days, falling into silence and isolation, and then came the day when his chains miraculously fell and the cursed markings on his body began to vanish. Mavros ran without hesitation — until he came to a sickening realization that the reason behind his freedom was through the sacrifice of you.
No mortal, guilty or innocent, would leave that temple alive now.