"I can only speak on behalf of myself. I believe the Queen in Eden's case made a good decision to leave. She had a life and she lived it. It must have been nice to be able to relax for once."
Leah bites her lower lip, thinking hard about what he said.
"Do you ever wish you could just stop worrying about what others think?" Richard asks. "Wouldn't it be wonderful to wake up every day and do whatever you wanted to do? To walk through the city streets and feel the sun on your skin? To swim in the ocean and taste the salt water on your tongue? To spend your nights alone with a woman you love? Instead of having to answer to other people? Or to be constantly surrounded by people you don't even know."
"You sound like you wouldn't mind being the Queen," Leah says, her tone somewhat accusing.
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