Her Own Terms (Ch.436)

The ascending room came to a stop but Adrienne did not step out, she stayed put, her gaze fixed on the unconscious Celia.

Adrienne had hit her hard enough, by her calculations, Celia would be out for a few hours at the least and as for Rosalie... she would wake up sometime after the hour.

'How had it come to this?' Adrienne wondered.

How had a place she had called home for decades become a place she could not access unless through such methods?

How had Dragon Keep, the home to all her dreams and aspirations become a place she could not dare step foot into? 

'Where had it all gone wrong?' Adrienne thought to herself.

For months, Adrienne had sat alone in a dingy room in some tower at the very edge of the world, asking and asking again this very same question, 

Where had it all gone wrong?

Was it when she had come to the conclusion that it was okay to do whatever it took...moral or immoral to get what she wanted?