Grizeilda

"Before all of this, I thought I was nothing. Felt like no one. I thought I could sink no lower. I could only go up. I...I had no more to lose. Your mind lies to you. Through deception, it is only yours to blame, not their own. You have more to lose than you think, and someone who wishes to find it will always find it all. They drain you to a husk, so that they may reshape you into whatever or whoever they please. You know no better at that point. It is far too complex for me to explain. But you wish to know what I was before any of this happened? A fool. And now? A larger fool than ever." She smiled. "But you are who you are. My facades haunt me. But am I not living one now? I wish it was simple enough to answer, but nothing ever is, is it? If I am but a reshaped mold...then this is not me. Not my skin. Not my heart. Not my soul. The woman this body belonged to died a very long time ago, buried deep within me, somewhere...in my deep reaches. Somewhere full of light, and good. Who I was before, not who I have become...I want to find her and talk some sense into her. I know I never will have the chance to do so, though. No...I am left with the reshaped husk. My ink dried a long time ago. I made my choices--my mistakes--...now I must live with them. I would think I deserve that much, at least. Perhaps more. Likely more..." Her voice dropped very low. She felt like crying, but held them back. She had had to do so many times over, so she knew how well enough still, even after all this time. "I know so."

~Grizeilda to Blackmartyr.~

Grizeilda, later revealed to be the Seductress, is a main character in parts one and two of the Plague War, as well as a former antagonist.