Author's note: I reference Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers in here. Go me.
Habit; 26
The lovers do not meet again for weeks, though the heads of their warring families do. The chief difference between the two of them and characters in a tragedy—by Ovid, or by Shakespeare—is that they are both the individuals and the houses. Each is forced into dual, conflicting roles.
I know; he knows.
He knows; I know.
They are both perceptive, and they are both frail, and they are both stern as steel. Neither can, or will, shatter the other without consent.
So I give him my permission once.
And with his express permission, I tear him apart.
