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“Her name was his last word.
But his eyes were still on me, full of a strange light, as if he saw something I could not see.
I swallowed, watching them dim. I heard his shudder of a breath, his final one, before his hand slipped from mine.
And the world around us went quiet again.”

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“I love her,” I said. Her hand froze in shock and then dropped away. “I have loved Matilda a very long time. Before I even knew you existed. And there is nothing you can offer me that I want. Nothing you can give me that I need. I am hers.”

“And I had never desired to be a god, to wield power as one, but in that moment, I longed to halt time. I would have made an interlude for us, a space when the hour lost its bite and the sun stood still. We could simply breathe and let ourselves unravel this knot between us, slowly.”

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“I stared up at the sky, naming the constellations, until I found hers—a bright six points. Herald of the gods. A kestrel in flight.
I willed those stars to burn always, because I could not bear to imagine them ever going dark.”

“I did not know what to say. He had stolen my words with his own, with this promise he had given me.”