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“Perhaps there had been something to his mother’s warnings after all—the mountain spirits were said to be creatures of surpassing loveliness, all bright eyes and dark hair, who lured men to their deaths in the springs or, as Evemer’s mother had warned, snatched their hearts and replaced them with burning embers.
He wondered if this was what that felt like.”

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“You’re a godsend. Those words from Kadou that first day at the Shipbuilder’s Guild, the shining prince on his golden horse, had swept through Evemer’s soul like a breath of unexpected wind and lit a glow in his heart like a single star on a cloudy night. These words now lit him up like a dozen stars.”

…ough! bashing my head in the same way teenage girls giggle and kick their feet