[It just hurts. Maybe more than it had hurt to have the demon reach into her eye socket and rip the nerves from their scarring in the first place.

Physical pain she knows what to do with. She knows how to grit her teeth and swallow it down, how to (try to) pretend it never happened.

But this isn’t physical.]

Whether I deserve it or not does not matter.

I will swallow the humiliation like I always have.

At least this time doing it means Zenith is down a powerful ally.