Poison, for all her youth and apparent inexperience, knows what it is to feel entirely powerless. She knows how it is to feel as if you have no control of your destiny, and that fate is just laughing at you while it pulls the strings of your life in the background.

"I never did," she murmurs, shaking her head. She can't remember the last time she did tell someone about it. Her actions then had been a testament to the selfishness of a teenage girl too convinced, and yet at the same time not at all convinced enough of her importance.

Poison sighs.

"Where I come from... and it isn't something most people know - our entire world is controlled by one person. The Hierophant. That one person writes everything important that ever happens. The rules of the land, even the laws of nature, and no one is above them. When I found out, it... I didn't take it very well."