[TAMIKO]
Kosta couldn't remember the endless times he had people down on their knees like that in front of him. In those times, he always felt powerful, as if he were delivering a stroke of justice, and likely deserved it.
Yet as his krushka knelt before him, the implication of what he wanted was obvious even to the enemies; Kosta didn't feel like the mission was close to being completed.
Instead, he felt empty, the kind of emptiness that came with knowing that he was about to lose everything in just a blink. It wasn't how his life had been programmed, but there wasn't even a life to protect anymore.
There wasn't a command to be followed.
Because when had love gotten this complicated?
When did they go from loving each other so much to now baring necks and waiting for Erasthais that could end it all?
