You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.

I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.

My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.

You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.

Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.