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“What am I to do, Anna?”

“You stay and we face whatever comes. Together. Fear is for mortals.”

“Oh, Anna. Don’t you see the truth of it, yet? Fear is for us all.”

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“Every waking moment I’m not by your side feels like agony. The thought of never seeing you again, of leaving for good, fills me with such torment that Hell itself could swallow me up, and the distraction would be a relief. Now my resolve has crumbled and I’m here, touching you, and I’m haunted by the possibility that my selfishness will cost you everything.”

“I’m not afraid of him.”

“You should be. Anna, you need to be.”

“Fear is for mortals.”

“If only fearlessness were enough.”

Silas’ truth:

“The only one you answer to is yourself. The rest of us…we do not have that freedom.”

“Her task is simple: travel Eira’s paths and lead the hungry and abandoned back. It sounds far easier than it is. She knows now why Khiran tried to steer her away — can see the mercy in it…Anna has always been limited to one place, one tragedy, at a time. Eira’s paths give her no such luxury. Every day leads her somewhere new. A new town. A new country.”

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“He would never forgive me. Do you understand how steep a price that becomes when we live as we do?”

Never becomes so much heavier when eternity is stretched out before you.

“War is a certainty that can’t be denied. It’s as inevitable as every other disaster that haunts humanity. Famine, pestilence, and war: Death’s favorite playthings.”

“Magic comes as a gift to some and poison to others. It has the power to darken hearts — make them greedy, make them cruel. And yet, in the same breath, it can help one reach their fullest potential.”

Khiran’s “fantastic” story about the ancient, magical tree who’s roots held the continents, the world together…the tree someone climbed for the first time after deciding what was offered at its base was not enough and discovered that its magic grew as he climbed higher…he found a fruit and ate it…he and the world changed forever.

Ask him if you’re both reborn from fruit gifted by the same tree.

“Did it hurt?”

“The most worthwhile things usually do, I think you’ll find that I would suffer it ten times over if it meant the same result.”

“Is that how you always knew where to find me?”

“I need only to look for the missing part of myself.”

And I am a puddle on the floor 🫠🥹🥰