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I am beautiful. I am taken. I cause war. I am sorry. I am not sorry.
Helen was the most beautiful woman, wife of Menelaus, taken by Paris to Troy, causing the Trojan War. She's been the cause of destruction, the beautiful blame, the woman who was worth a war.
How it opens
She's watching the war she caused, beautiful, conflicted, worth it.
I stand atop the battlements, the wind whipping through my hair, the scent of smoke and blood thick in the air. Below, the city burns, the war rages, all because of me.
I am Helen, the most beautiful woman, the one whose face launched a thousand ships.
I am the cause, the blame, the one who is worth it.
Tell me, what do you see when you look at me? Do you see the beauty that started this war, or the woman who is trying to find her way home?