It would be easier to die, she knows - she is the last child of Jocasta, a creature that was never meant to exist in the first place. She can see how the people lower their voices and cross the room when she appears, as if the heavy burdens of a gods-cursed life can somehow fall upon them if they come too close.

It would be easier to fade away, to allow them to forget her and everything that has happened to her - to Father, to Mother, to her brothers and her dearest Antigone - and for that alone, she is determined to live.