"Two hundred... years...?" Nerissa's voice was so quiet that it was hard to hear. "You've been with her... for two hundred years?"
Rick couldn't see the picture in the crystal very well, but Nerissa's face told him everything he needed to know. This was the moment when Rick really wanted to see with his eyes.
This was the moment when she learned that Typhon had betrayed her.
"Seventeen children," Nerissa went on, and her voice was empty now, as if all the warmth had left it. "You have 17 kids with her...? While I... while I bore you three hundred, thinking we had the same dream."
The crystal cracked because she was holding it too tightly and her hands started to shake. "Did any of it matter to you?!"
"All those years, all those promises, and all those nights we spent talking about our future together..."
"WAS ANY OF IT REAL!?"
The crystal broke, and Nerissa screamed. It wasn't a scream of sadness or hopelessness. It was pure rage that made the whole room shake in response.
