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"A champion, a hero, a saint, a legend—I made you someone who could never, ever be forgotten." She stepped sideways a little, so that the sun touched her face, and she was suddenly not a shadow but a girl, crying freely, her accent veering back toward the archaic. "Everything that was denied to me, I gave to thee."

« Then came the yew, the branches bowed with frost, your sword resting sweetly at my throat. Then the dragon and the grail, the courtyard and the queen, the bier and the book.

God, please, don't ask me to write it all down again.

It's your turn to tell it, love. »

«You never remarked on such fits. You only folded yourself around me while I shuddered and panted, letting the heat of your skin soak into mine. It was an impersonal courtesy, a service rendered, but still: I lingered longer than I should have, afterward.

Forgive me—a coward so rarely feels safe.»