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“You want a revolution, but you don’t want to pay the cost. You don’t want to sacrifice.”

He dreamed—in an unspoiled, hopeful kind of way that could be born only in the Lower City.

“Matius, son of Matius, of everything you could want in this city, I am the very worst thing.”

She turned and my hand instinctively lifted to reach for her. But my fingers only encircled air, narrowly missing the edge of her palls. And I was instantly relieved that they did. Because if I had been able to touch her, I wasn’t sure what it would have done to me.

“There is no one with more blood on their hands, Luca. Because everything we make, everything we study, will be used in the quest for power.”

…but the only person I’d give my life for was across the river.

It was easy to have faith when you wanted for nothing.

“But be careful. You don’t want to become a favorite of the gods.”

“I thought it was an honor to be chosen by the gods,” I said.

She glanced back up at the tapestry, to the gap-crowned doves that arced across the scene. I’m not sure the doves would agree.”