Crossing Lines
What I became.
And that’s by design.
Because if she ever truly saw the extent of my darkness, I don’t know if she’d stay.
So I keep my distance, even as I orbit her like a dying star. Close enough to feel the heat, far enough not to burn her alive.
My gaze drifts past her, over the water, to the empire I’ve rebuilt. The ruins of the Dominion Society now rest beneath my feet, buried under concrete, steel, and silence.
They once called themselves gods. Immortal. Above reproach. They held court in boardrooms and think tanks, behind the closed doors of governments and markets. They believed power was their birthright.