Julia's Honest Heart
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Julia began to cry. She had been resisting the urge for a very long time, after going through so many dear-death experiences, it was natural for someone her age to suddenly feel like braking down. The people around her looked at her with new eyes, as they saw her devotion to them, but also her weakness and humanity.
She wasn't perfect, she was a girl given a tremendous task of raising a ruined fiefdom back together. She was doing everything she could, but against Fate, even doing everything you can sometimes simply doesn't work. Everything was crumbling now. She should definitely run away for her life right now, not stay here, in the middle of utter chaos.
But because she was devoted to her people, because she held what her mother taught to her inside of her heart, she was willing to give up her life for them, or at the very least, die at their side.
"Lady Julia…"
"Please, stand up!"
"We'll stay with you as well."