No man's prisoner

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And so came the great blow
from unexpected quarter.
Right before the throne
of the usurper.
And our wandering hero
was laid low by betrayal.
And that heart, which no man
nor monster nor spell could shake.
Was shattered into pieces.
And he knew his defeat was upon him.
But he raised himself upon his feet
to look his betrayer in the eyes.
And asked, "Why?".
She had no answer, no rebuttal.
No tale of woe, with his death as the price.
No compulsion, no tricks of the mind
laid upon her, to force this action.
"Why?", he asked again,
in plaintive voice and broken speech.
Gibbering as a child, scolded by his matrem.
Holding hand to bleeding head and reeling mind.
"We could have had it all!
My goal was in sight.
You could have been queen!
All of mine could be yours!
Why? Why then this betrayal?", he cried.
"Because it had to be so.
Because I wish not to reign
as anyone's queen.
Because I am my own person.
And my freedom is dearer to me
than anyone's vengeance.", her reply came.
"Then why not just leave?
Why betray? And why now?", his gasps
make speaking hard. But his need to know
is greater still than his desire for life.
She laughs in turn, suddenly as lovely
as the day they had met in darkened woods.
"Because you fool, I thought not that you
would actually succeed in this mad stratagem.
Because I thought you would forever chase
your vow of vengeance and give not thought
to our union.
But now, your enemy is at hand
and with him dead, nothing would save me
from a life as your queen, your beholden wife.
And bars, golden though they may be,
are bars nonetheless. And I am no man's prisoner."

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