She pauses for an immeasurable moment, then as if returning from a deep abyss, she speaks...
"You don't understand yet, but maybe someday you will. That this life...all of this... is just a story. A story that is sometimes a myth. And in those rare moments that you step off the normal narratives into the mythic one, it is no longer about you, me, or him. It is about Them. In the sublime light of divinity cast across the web of time, when we can see this pattern unobscured by our own fears and limitations, all questions dissolve. You see that the whole universe dances on the turn of a 'yes', and always has. A yes that you've been saying all along even while you fought tooth, nail and heart against reflections. Thinking you were alone. Doubting the meaning behind it all.
"Yes... Dionysos loves Ariadne.
"Do you doubt this?"
I don't know what else to say to describe how this hit me so immediately and deeply except to say "Holy shit."
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