I’m dozing, in that blissed out state you only reach at the end of special days with special people.

“For though you may be able to live as a man, yet you will also always be a woman. It is hard enough to be one or the other, and I fear it harder yet to be both.' Her last words were nothing more than a whisper. 'What will you be?’
Silence.”
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Silence.”
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“Was this, then, what life was really like? A thing that could plunge suddenly into unfathomable nightmare at a moment’s notice?”
― The Great When
― The Great When
“But would he abandon the hope of becoming a knight? He reminded himself of what the crow had told him about not going on the straightest road. It worked like that sometimes in archery, too. If there was a wind, for instance, you had to aim away from the target to get the arrow to land where you wanted. Well. Perhaps he would take aim at Brittany, walk the path of being a minstrel and see where it led him. The straightforward path - page to squire to knight - had got him nowhere.”
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“You have no sense of romance!' Alfred protested. 'And here you are the minstrel, singing of it all day.”
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“Hadn't she said, he'd have knowledge and power beyond the other boys? That he'd be not just other but more than what they were? Perhaps that is what had filled him today: the awareness that while they were just one, he was both.”
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