Both the "I was never", "The only man" etc on his part and her statement ending with "what kind of life is this, that has all humanity banished from it" are authentic quotes from them about each other, and one reason why I chose this section as a conclusion was because I wanted to give them the chance to reply to these statements. (BTW, one rl fact I couldn't use though there's a brief allusion to it - he actually had her portrait in Sanssouci.)
In fairness, he was passionate about those dogs. (And wanted to be buried with those who'd died before him.) But yes, it says something about the state of his life by the end, even considering how dysfunctional the Hohenzollern as a family were.
"Best of enemies" is what always comes to my mind when I think about their lives as a whole, and the story tried to earn this phrase.
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Selena on Chapter 5 Tue 31 Dec 2019 10:41AM UTC
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