The Fall

ANNETTE'S POV.

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"He just only reciprocated when it was already too late." She responded, sadly. 

"Too bad for you," I told her.

"I don't need your pity." She said, 

"My pity is actually quite expensive and I don't intend to waste it on someone who cannot feel remorse," I said, 

"I warned you.." Saruman showed up from behind me.

There was a way he looked at her and it prompted my asking.

"You know her?" 

"I raised her." He replied.

She rolled her eyes and turned away, sitting on the floor with her back against the bars of her cage. 

"I warned you your desperation for such power would only bring the end upon you." He said to her,

"I do not need your preaching, old man." She said, 

"Have you no guilt?" He asked her.

"No. Only regret forever going with you. I should have stayed back, being among the remnants of the war, would have been better if the enemy took me captive instead." She said,