Your chosen vocabulary is ideal and evocative, and the point of him forcing her to live was a nice touch.

she had won the war but was imprisoned? what happened?

I’m with Elsha. I’m confused by the sequence of events in this one. Sequel?

The idea is that she came to him during the night and begged to be killed.

I really enjoyed the writing style here. I’m a little confused by the story line, like the others, but the imagery and sentence structure is grea!