And I Shall Hide

I hope that I am insane. I wish that I am insane. These are my first thoughts upon waking from a nightmare. Make the nightmare real and this waking world the fiction of a despoiled mind. But I know it is not true, for the dreams change night to night but reality maintains continuous. I remain Jamyl, first Empress of her name, leader of the Amarr Empire in both body and soul. I should pray that I were insane, but I know God would not answer me. As I sit up from my tangled bedsheets, I have to laugh to …