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“I knew the price I paid for my revenge—all of my sins, all the marks against my soul. I couldn’t forget them if I tried.

But if my guilt was the only thing that kept me from being the same senseless narcissist as him, then I would cling to that guilt until my dying breath.”

“I knew the price I paid for my revenge—all of my sins, all the marks against my soul. I couldn’t forget them if I tried.

But if my guilt was the only thing that kept me from being the same senseless narcissist as him, then I would cling to that guilt until my dying breath.”

“He had chosen me for being horrible—but did that mean I had to be horrible forever? That I could not ever become someone better, that other people might like?”

“He sighed like he bore the weight of the world on his shoulders. ‘One day,’ he said with a woeful smile, ‘you’ll accept my affections.’

‘You’re an elder god. You don’t know what affection even means.’”

“I could have explained that there was no need for me to strengthen my focus with these little exercises. No need to sit here in the dark, hoping to connect with a sacred power. No need to pray the movement into my metal fingers, because my god was here with me, every minute of every day, acting like a nuisance.”

“It wasn’t that I wanted to die. I simply could not muster the energy to live.”