I sat silent in my room, depressed by all that’s been happening lately. Was there anything else that could make it worse?

There was nothing I really felt to live for anymore. I began eyeing the sharp quill on my desk. Then shaking my head. I shouldn’t be thinking thoughts like that. Look at me, I’m clothed, well-fed, sheltered. And yet I wasn’t happy. I felt tears beginning to fall from my eyes.

Then Karmendy rushed into the room, holding a piece of paper. “Miss, this is for you.” And from her expression, it was a letter from Robin. I opened it.

He was asking to meet sometime in the night. I closed my eyes and shuddered with new tears.

I inched my hand towards the candle and watch as the letter along with my heart go up in flames.