Ronan's eyes narrow just a fraction. That's not a question. It's an accusation. He can hear echoes of his older brother's words in it: Are you breaking the world?
What neither of them understand is that the world can't be saved without breaking something. And Ronan refuses to be the one that breaks.
"Rhy," he sighs, tracing his thumb down the sweet prince's cheek. Ronan has sympathy for the pure-hearted, the naive and the soft. He adores them, as he adored his mother and still adores his little brother. People like this are the ones that need protecting. They are the reason a monster like Ronan has to exist at all.
"None of this would have happened if we'd made a move sooner. And if the Queen chose to turn the other cheek just now, we would be the ones to burn instead. The longer we wait, the worse it gets. Believe me. I know. Doing anything other than this would have just left us open to something more terrible."
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What neither of them understand is that the world can't be saved without breaking something. And Ronan refuses to be the one that breaks.
"Rhy," he sighs, tracing his thumb down the sweet prince's cheek. Ronan has sympathy for the pure-hearted, the naive and the soft. He adores them, as he adored his mother and still adores his little brother. People like this are the ones that need protecting. They are the reason a monster like Ronan has to exist at all.
"None of this would have happened if we'd made a move sooner. And if the Queen chose to turn the other cheek just now, we would be the ones to burn instead. The longer we wait, the worse it gets. Believe me. I know. Doing anything other than this would have just left us open to something more terrible."