I Won't Lose! ~30 Days A: Priestess _hot_

“You think I came here perfect?” I asked my reflection. “I came here hungry. I came here bleeding. I came here with nothing but thirty dawns of refusing to stay down.”

I struck the phantom with a truth it couldn’t mirror: “I am not fighting to win. I am fighting because giving up has never been my prayer.” i won't lose! ~30 days a priestess

“The one who didn’t lose.” Would you like this adapted into a poem, a song lyric, or a script format? “You think I came here perfect

They sent a phantom wearing my mother’s face. It asked why I was still fighting. “You were always too stubborn,” it crooned. “Too weak to know when to kneel.” I came here with nothing but thirty dawns

And I smiled.

When the temple gates opened again, the High Oracle waited. For the first time in a century, she bowed.