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“Soldiers marched through the streets, sending townsfolk scurrying to their homes. Arrests were made in the street: anyone voicing dissent, anyone daring to ask why the entirety of House Redeion must pay for one man's felonies.”

"Are you saying she will become careless?"
“Yes. No jump will be high enough, no horse swift enough, no current deep enough. She will play with the immortality you have given her. She has no mortal fear and you are the reason why. Her fearlessness saturates the footprints left behind her leading into Death. She has no fear, until the moment she feels the knife cut into her throat, the very real sting of mortality."

"A part of your soul, how romantic," Sullivain remarked "I suppose I should be jealous, then, that other people have parts of your soul as well as me?"
"And are you jealous?"Helliver, She stood over her, a smile on her lips. She jumped as the Princess reached over, but it was just to tuck a wayward lock behind her ear, her hand lingering a moment on the skin behind it.
"Perhaps," she said with a light in her eyes.