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Remember what you did last time? her mind whispers. If you free it, you will truly become a monster.
'Fine,' Liska hisses, blood leaking down her arm. "Then let me be a monster.'

Mah girllllllll

These two are making me tear up

She reaches out and puts her hand over his.
He twitches, as if her touch is lightning, as if he expects to burst aflame. When she looks up, his eyes are wide and bewildered.
'You've endured so much for us, Liska whispers.
'It's my duty,' he says.
"Thank you.' She holds his hand until his shoulders loosen, until he knows she means it.
The way he looks at her, it is as if she has spoken absolution to a man condemned.

'What are you doing?'
Making sure my not-so-clever fox is as fine as she says she is. He draws his fingers away but continues to survey her, study her, a jeweller trying to decide the value of a rare diamond.

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'A garden... He rubs his temples. 'Of course. What did I expect? Something befitting an all-powerful demon?
No, of course not. I have razed battlefields and summoned storms and created wonders from magic alone, but she wants me to grow cabbages.'

“What did any of this accomplish? All you did was bleed everywhere, you useless demon?
You're the one who can't keep her nose out of a demon's business You useless girl.' 'If I had kept my nose out of your business, you would have bled out on the floor!' He grimaces. 'I preferred you when you were quiet."
'And I preferred you when you were a deer.'

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"These need stitches, Leszy. Do you have any thread?'
'Get out,' he says through clenched teeth. 'I don't need
your help!
She is exhausted. He is exhausting. 'And are you a contortionist? Because I don't think you can reach your back on your own.'

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“If only we could go back to that time, Liska thinks, when we were young and full of stories.”

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