Queen & Lionheart (Not so different after all)

He had loved her once: she was full of laughter and life, full of colors and promises.

He had been her friend, once: she would tell him things, and he would stay by her side.

He had warned her, once: where his heart truly lay, where his duty was.

He had no idea when she had become so diabolic.

He wondered often if it was his fault – if it had been how he betrayed her trust, how he had courted her death.

He had done what he had to do – she had betrayed him first.

She had betrayed them all.