Highly Recommended Listening: Evenstar—By Howard Shore]
Why was the lady so concerned with him in the first place? Was it because she believed there was good in darkness just like her mother did?
Orpheus still believed it was a naive take on life, and he wasn't quite sure whether he liked that she pitied him or whether it angered him because it was a sign of his weakness.
"Do not pity me," Orpheus said, his voice softer than before. Never in his life did he ever think that a woman would shed tears for him. "I should have died that day, but something in me burnt too strong for me to let go of the world."
Lady Karina was even more in a dilemma than she had ever been. This man, this beast of a conqueror who pillaged and destroyed as he pleased, led such a terrible life.
It was the opposite of everything she had ever known, the other side of the coin of everything she had ever been taught.
