A Child Among Gods

The second I saw her standing there, I quickly collapsed to my knees, my grip releasing from the dagger immediately.

I’d been merely a second away from doing it. From ending it. From finally letting go.

And yet I was still alive.

I gasped at the air around me, my body shaking from adrenaline as it pulsed through me.

It had started as just a bluff… but somehow I’d found myself almost going thro