A/N: After a conversation with Faragonda, Griffin is faced with a difficult choice about her relationship with Valtor.

Faragonda had been right. She couldn't keep turning a blind eye to what Valtor was doing. Or rather what the Coven was doing. But there wasn't a distinguishable difference between the two since they were one and the same. Valtor was working for his mothers and following their orders down to the letter. And she wished to argue that he didn't have any other option but she knew that was a lie. He had a choice. And so did she. And the time had finally come for her to make it.

She wished she could argue against that as well, wished she could just ignore reality and stay regardless of the consequences. But she couldn't. Not when the stakes were so high. So she had to choose.

If the choice had been between Faragonda and Valtor, it would've been impossible to make. She loved them both and could never deprive herself of her relationship with one of them just to keep the other. But it was a choice between what the two of them stood for which meant there wasn't really anything to choose. She just had to make the move. And that should've made it easier because she knew in her entire being that she couldn't stay with him. But that somehow made the heartache worse instead. Because he'd left her no option to choose him and he'd doomed their relationship in his pursuit of power.