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“Sometimes, when the power of your enemy is too great, the only thing you can do is contain it.”


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“We will help,” Mahon said into the sudden silence.
George startled. “Dad?”
He put his arm around her shoulders. “I don’t care how powerful he is. Nobody touches my future son-in-law.”


😔 we better not lose Mahon after this

“I tried to talk to him, but he wouldn’t listen to me, so I watched him, hoping to be there when Shakush struck. I tried to give him a weapon that would offer at least some slight advantage. I missed the attack.”
He had dragged this weight forward for decades alone. It was a miracle it hadn’t broken him.

😞 i’m blaming the mother

“it simply makes the possession that much easier; to express a wish, you must first open your mind to the djinn and then accept his magic. You have to believe that he can grant any wish. With each wish, your body becomes more and more receptive until finally your mind submits to the djinn completely. As soon as the ifrit possesses a body, the reserve of that human’s magic belongs to him.”

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“He reached out to me and touched my hand. Too late I realized I had dropped my shields and my magic had filled the room, plain for anyone with a gift to see it.
“Your magic is beautiful, my daughter,” the Builder of Towers said, his eyes luminescent with power. “You should show it more often, for you are perfect.”

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He wouldn’t have imbued me with his power and then he wouldn’t have had to try to destroy what he’d created out of love

“all that I am was undone by the simplest and most basic of things—a mother’s love for her child.”

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“How is the Preceptor?” I asked.
“I haven’t seen him.” My father shrugged. “He is taking a sort of a sabbatical. A journey to find himself.”
“Was that his idea or yours?” Curran asked.
“A bit of both.”

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“You didn’t answer my question about your wedding.”
I leaned back. “Why does it matter to you?”
“Consider me old-fashioned,” he said. “People talk. People ask when or if there will be a formal union.”
“Who are these people?”
“D’Ambray,” Curran said.

🤣 why r they like a bunch of gossiping old ladies

“Now that I’ve conceded that point, the wedding. When are you going to stop living in sin?”

😩😮‍💨 yeah girl when

“Blossom, I purchased the land. You can’t really prevent me from building anything I want on it. But if it causes you distress, I will be willing to stipulate it won’t be more than two floors in height.”
Yes, and each floor would be a hundred feet in height. “No more than fifty-five feet in height for the entire building.”
Roland smiled. “Very well.”


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