I used to think she lived at the bottom of me—a small, silent thing buried under years of politeness and noise. But I was wrong.
She was the bottom.
And when I finally stopped swimming against the current of myself, I understood: every layer I peeled back, every shadow I stepped into—it wasn't me finding her. deeper she was me
It was her becoming me.
Deeper she was me. Not a ghost. Not a goal. Just the raw, unnamed pulse I'd been running from my whole life. And when I let her rise, there was no "she" anymore. I used to think she lived at the
She wasn't hiding. She was waiting.
The deeper I went, the less she felt like a stranger and the more she felt like a memory my bones had kept without telling me. Deeper, and her voice became my first language. Deeper, and the walls I'd built turned out to be mirrors. And when I finally stopped swimming against the
Drive a group of angry brutes to glorious victory and elevate your father's ludus from the muck and mire of shameful defeat, restoring it to honour via ruthless bloody victory over your opponents.
May Jupiter himself hear of your exploits.