Love can make a person do extreme things and cursed love is no different. However, thinking back on that night and what came after, I believe that the reason she was acting so extremely was not because she wanted to go with that man, but because she realized she was in love with me beyond the curse and needed a way to show it to me.
[Women have used jealousy as a weapon forever. This time, though, the plan did not go as was expected. That is...if Diarmuid is right at all. He might be completely off...]
Even once I was calmed down, I remained outside of the cave and I am sure that after a while she assumed that I really had abandoned her. Grainne was surprised when she stepped outside of the cave, and saw I was not that far away. She approached me and started speaking of all she had given up and how true her love for me was. It was her way of asking for forgiveness, I suppose, but deep down part of me was still angry and I answered her words with cutting ones of my own. What had her love brought me? I lost everything as well. All her beauty could not make Fionn forgive me. All her words could not return the Fianna--my family--to me. What was her love worth to me who had lost everything because of it?
She fell silent then and I hoped that it meant she was thinking about the one thing that I really needed her to understand: I had given up just as much as she had for this love. She was not the only victim in all of this. If she could realize that, I had hope that eventually, she could understand me and what exactly she was asking me to do when she asked me to return her love.
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[Women have used jealousy as a weapon forever. This time, though, the plan did not go as was expected. That is...if Diarmuid is right at all. He might be completely off...]
Even once I was calmed down, I remained outside of the cave and I am sure that after a while she assumed that I really had abandoned her. Grainne was surprised when she stepped outside of the cave, and saw I was not that far away. She approached me and started speaking of all she had given up and how true her love for me was. It was her way of asking for forgiveness, I suppose, but deep down part of me was still angry and I answered her words with cutting ones of my own. What had her love brought me? I lost everything as well. All her beauty could not make Fionn forgive me. All her words could not return the Fianna--my family--to me. What was her love worth to me who had lost everything because of it?
She fell silent then and I hoped that it meant she was thinking about the one thing that I really needed her to understand: I had given up just as much as she had for this love. She was not the only victim in all of this. If she could realize that, I had hope that eventually, she could understand me and what exactly she was asking me to do when she asked me to return her love.