“You are not done with her. Ongrum."
Ranka began to shake her head, but Percy held up a hand.
"You think you are - but trust me. This is how it works, with people who wield abuse like a knife and convince us they're cutting us with love. There will come a moment more dire than the one you faced last night. A moment you can't come back from, and everything in you, everything you've been conditioned for, every fear and hurt and hope and dream will scream for you to choose Ongrum again.”