A warning, before I begin.

If you choose to stay, you will hear stories of death. You will hear ones of murder, bigotry, hardship, and hatred. You will hear of powers both earthly and divine taking that which does not belong to them, of enemies and friends alike being hanged for crimes they may or may not have even committed, and of how violence begets violence..

This is a story of war, which means it is inevitable that it’s also a story about ruin.

But make no mistake. This is also a story about justice, about fighting for the right to live and to be the way you wish to be without fear or apology. It is a story about love – if it can be called that – as much as it is a story about hate.

This story is about many things, but in the end it is my story, and for this reason I have decided to share it. So, if you’d still like to hear it, then I will gladly speak.

Get comfortable. You deserve that much, to feel safe when so many who came before you couldn’t.