[Mini Event] bellatrix audet concurrere viris

Amalia I took the stars from our eyes and I made a map I knew that somehow I could find my way back Things go sideways very quickly. Wessex makes her explanations - some of which the girls knows, others being new revelations, each one making her fists clench tighter as she tries to keep her expression calm. She wishes she were surprised to hear that the Wraith wants to open more portals, that nothing she said on their last encounter left any impact on the woman's mind. That she is still blinded by the Voice's empty promises, still too selfish to consider the repercussions her actions will bring on the rest of the world. She would challenge, would speak, would show her strength- but in a puff of smoke and a the span of a blink the woman is gone, fled the dias on which she stood, leaving Amalia shell-shocked where she stands. Of all the things she had expected of Wessex, none were ever that the woman might take a coward's way out. And then the voices begin to rise. Arguments, combative, egos and ideas, but Amalia scarcely hears them. She is still staring where Wessex once stood, the world slowing to a crawl around her as she tries to make sense of what happened. Is this the woman's master plan? To throw them into chaos, leave them at each other's throats, use the mess to prove why she is still needed? If so it is genius, for in the wake of the Wraith's departure there is nothing resembling cohesion. How are they to vote, when nobody else has put themselves forward? How are they to choose another leader, without knowing how anyone else will lead? Amalia does not contribute to the impassioned uproar; there is nothing she can do but add to the noise. So she writes her message on the paper, a bandaid for a deeper problem, her dark eyes still scanning for signs of the Wraith. "You cannot hide from your actions, Wessex," the girl says quietly to the dias, the crowd, to wherever the woman lurks, disappointment heavy in her voice, betrayal in her eyes. "You're better than that- or you used to be. You used to be so much more." Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too So I stayed in the darkness with you