More thoughts on fiction:

If your two protagonists have spent their entire lives fearing and hating each others' group/race/nation/religion/family, and both had lost their childhoods and beloved family members to this mutual hatred, it's probably going to take them more than three weeks to move from loathing to love. Even if those are three very intense weeks. Even if they're fated, magically empathic, and/or teenagers. I feel like this is going to take at least a few months, and even then, they'll be really, really conflicted. (Especially if one of them personally led an attack on the other's hometown. I mean, really?)

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