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"I fully break with my associations of darkness. I want none of them. I remove my curse upon the Pyre.”

"To break with this curse, I must forfeit my life. That is what I offered as security for it, to ensure that no one could interrupt my path against my choice. Because the selfish creature I am knew that I would never offer myself as a sacrifice, rather, I would guard my life as a miser with his gold-never thinking that even a Virtus Third would be strong enough to shake my commitment."

"I never could have known, before this, what the Lights are willing to do to reclaim a soul."

"Focus on me, Sperro," I say, lowering my voice, hoping he can hear me through the din. Sperro, the Lights want to claim you, heal you, save you for Their own, but you must choose Them.

"He will become immortal!" Callidus says.
"He was already born unto immortality! We all are," I shout, defying, Callidus. "But going into the abyss, killing all light, will strip him of that inheritance. It will only leave him ceaselessly blind. What right have you to forge your lack of vision over the life of a Lectus Born!”

Do not listen to him, Sperro, I think, hoping he will hear me. It is not greatness; it never was. It is misery. It is nothingness.

"I will not fear. I will not fear. There is no place for it here"
Fear is essential. Fear is what gives you visions of things as they really are. Fear is what keeps you from being deceived.
“That is not true," I say, giving a desperate laugh. But the cloying voice is wrapping around me, and I'm no longer certain.