url edit ≡ @pclyxena ♥

An oracle prophesied that Troy would not be defeated if Polyxena’s brother, Prince Troilus, reached the age of twenty. During the Trojan War, Polyxena and Troilus were ambushed when they were attempting to fetch water from a fountain, and Troilus was killed by the Greek warrior Achilles, who soon became interested in the quiet sagacity of Polyxena.

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url edit ≡ @oh-psyche ♥

She was originally a beautiful princess who was so gorgeous that people would come from far away to see her.  People believed she was the next Aphrodite and began to come and worship Psyche abandoning the temples left to the true goddess of beauty.

url edit ≡ @sansas ♥

“The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.”