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Maybe she was guilty of giving Archon more credit than he deserved. Had he lived, would she have remembered him with such fondness? Did her aching heart distort the memories she had so he was remembered in a much brighter light than reality held? She wouldn’t let herself consider the fact. Venom loved and adored her father, she lamented everyday that he was no longer with them, and she wouldn’t give up the fondness she felt for him. She wouldn’t sully his memory in her mind, no matter the outward pressure.

Through her explanation Maverick listened intently, she hadn’t missed the way his cheeks flushed at her comment about chasing him, however much it was overshadowed by her sadness. Years had passed since Archon’s death and yet it still affected her deeply. Still, Maverick was able to make her smile as she quieted. He lamented his folly and toasted to her father before taking his drink.

Her mind didn’t even think to offer Maverick up another guess on his life, so he took the chance to keep going. He questioned her further, wondering what it was that she had sacrificed. The point now was to be honest, but for the first time she had trouble answering. "The first was my own mother. One commandment I have followed is to never be intimate with your own kin. Part of the reason she does not reside within Ashen is because of her relationship with my uncle. The result of those actions were my brother Chimera,” Which Maverick had met earlier, "and my sister Siren. I cannot hold the circumstance of their birth against them but it does pain me they followed in their parent’s pawsteps.” She turned a blind eye, and maybe that was why ultimately she and Toxicity had experienced such fallout.

"The second was my disagreement with my own sister. Her name is Toxicity, and she had always followed our father’s teachings much more literally than I ever did. His death affected her completely different from me, and that fact came to a head when she tried to strip my own children of their name. She could’t respect my authority, she overstepped her own power. She attempted to take our father’s name from me with violence. She was unsuccessful.” In the end Venom had taken her name in punishment for overstepping her bounds.

Venom took a sip of her drink at the end of her explanation, admitting her defeat in his question. The mood had become somewhat dour and she tried to think of an assumption about him that would lighten the mood. "I know I’m not the first Lady that you have tried to woo. I do wonder, you love fast and swiftly,” then you leave. "There was a girl once, one that you thought was the other side of your heart, but she left you before you could leave her.” And now he lived fast and left faster so as to protect his heart.

"Venom"