Hello @warpedpoetic,
There is pride, ambition, greed--and a narrative that reads like poetry. It is a grim tale, a tale for a time of war and woe. Is that every time? Your writing is superb.
Thank you for sharing this with us. We value highly engagement in the community and our vote reward structure is partly influenced by this. It must be true that you value feedback on your stories. So do other writers. Please keep that in mind.
Life is often filled with the basest human desires and ambition is often an excuse for people to be cruel.
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