Silent pledge

Outside, the moon shines brightly. In the silent dawn, Eleonor is locked in the bathroom, staring at the floor with her foggy mind. Her thoughts go back and forth in Giovanni's sentence, who called his own blood filthy.

No one deserves to live in this shadow world. That's the truth.

No child deserves to carry this filthy blood… Eleonor used to think the same about herself. For a long time, she considered herself a curse. The idea of passing on her blood was the same as handing an innocent child pain that she never wished for anyone. But at some point, that perception changed. She no longer sees herself as unworthy… as a burden to her family or this shit world.

Somehow, it saddens her that Giovanni thinks that way of himself. Now, Eleonor understands that the always confident and arrogant posture he always maintains is a shield… a way to protect himself. It couldn't have been easy growing up knowing that his birth was a sin… That his father saw him as a soldier. And being born in a cr