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“The yearning for him is like hunger, hollowing me. Somewhere his soul waits, but is nowhere I can reach.”

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“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”

“I could not find the words that would reach him. Perhaps there were none.”

“I do not know this man, I think. He is no one I have ever seen before. My rage towards him is hot as blood.”

“Our world was one of blood, and the honor it won; only cowards did not fight. For a prince there was no choice. You warred and won, or you warred and died.”

“This, out of all of it, was perhaps the strangest: that he was the commander now. He would be expected to know them all, their names and armor and stories. 𝙃𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚.”

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”

“His presence was like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore.”