rites

from the tears of a jester. assembling them like patchwork quilt;

(novel) sorrow is a well. a deep well that even the clown himself does not know the end of.

(manhwa chap 17) the fifth commandment is... offer your master loyalty, but not your heart. if you do not follow that rule, your tears will never run dry. and crying jesters can't make anyone laugh.

(manhwa chap 42) sweet, naive jester... now, at the last, you're tearing my heart to ribbons. // i never permitted you to cry, yet you rend my heart to the very end. // your highness, please do not despise me. please do not forsake me, for i am eternally yours.

(manhwa chap 43) but even though i am utterly yours, i would still mourn the death of a robin that had spent its entire life encaged, just as i would bury a butterfly that met its demise before the close of spring, or commemorate a young deer felled by a hunter's arrow.

(manhwa chap 48) the fate of the bat, constantly flitting about and changing sides, was ultimately to plunge to the ground.

(manhwa chap 56) why do they seek to snap the wings of a robin that has never once left its cage?

(manhwa chap 68) my sun has been shattered, and now i will be his endless night. 

(manhwa chap 79) i took so much from you. just what were you grateful for? if an afterlife might exist, may your hair there be eternally crimson.

(manhwa chap 85) can you not forgive me? // i am leaving precisely so that i may forgive you, your majesty. someday, when i have became something other than a jester, i shall return to you with forgiveness in my heart, your majesty.