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“Stop dying,” I told him.
A faint smile touched his lips. “Is that all?”

”No answer came. But She couldn’t ignore me forever. If She wouldn’t listen to me, I would make Her regret it.
I would die, and I would see Her soon.”
lol this girl

oh… it killed her just like that

”There was a plot outside my old village where children were buried in unmarked graves. In a village like mine, far outside the route of the convent’s corpse-wagons, only those who could afford it sent their dead children to convents to get the bodies blessed.”

“No one would dabble in Old Magic after the Sorrow. No one would be that—”
“Stupid? If there’s one thing I can always rely upon, it’s the reassuring dependability of human idiocy. Give your kind a century or so, and they’ll happily repeat the exact same mistakes that nearly wiped them all out a few generations before.”

well this was fun

“Once, when we were a good deal younger, Malthas and I nearly convinced it to try possessing a duck.”

I guess now we know what revenants do when they're not out murdering people and eating their souls

not like leander is wearing a stole they could've tied it up with

“They don’t like each other very much,” I explained.

they just don't like each other😭

I knew it I knew it