Do you want to hear a story?
Of course you do. That's why you are still here. The story I am about to tell you does not have a nice ending. It is bittersweet. It is the space between light and darkness.
Long ago, I lived in an Osafo village with only my Minipets to keep me company. Because of my overwhelming beauty, no one dared to make me a bride. They feared Calisa, the Deity of Beauty and Vain, who cursed anyone who married her beautiful offspring.
Loneliness was something I was familiar with until I met Silver. He promised me the stars and the moon and a happy marriage, even when I warned him that others might try to ward him away from me.
He had laughed and called it nonsense.
The morning we were to wed, I woke in a hall of statues and pillars. Before me, Calisa floated before me, all flesh and pure beauty. She claimed me as her daughter and princess of her realm and therefore, she would hurt my beloved.
Then she struck Silver with a bolt.