The world is more lush with life than Yona ever could have known, filled to the brim with greenery and color, diversity and people.
It's complex and difficult, filled with bad things and good. It's so different from the castle she grew up in and yet so similar too.
People made good choices and bad, where she grew up, and some of those bad choices were really bad and some were just bad.
Some choices were the same ones people made at the castle just in different towns and places, and some decisions or choices were completely different ones.
Life is lush, just full of so many things and so much variety. It's mesmerizing, and yet flows so naturally.
Yona's discovered warmth and compassion, that she desperately needed after that dark, cold night, where the rain muffled the sound of death, of a sword, of her racing heart that had never beat so loud, not even on the bright days that she got to see Soo-Won before his betrayal.
A heart should race out of joy and attractions, not out of fear and anguish. And yet her heart was louder and more insistent at great pain.
But now, it has many reasons to be full, mixed in with better, do better, add a little more brightness to the world than darkness.
Yona's more alive than she'd ever known. Alive with joy and love, friendship and romance. Alive with fear and courage, with sorrow and guilt. Alive with compassion and bitter anger.
Even Yona's lush with life now.