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“They never let you be famous and happy.” He lifted an eyebrow. “I’ll tell you a secret.”
“Tell me.” I loved it when he was like this.
“I’m going to be the first.” He took my palm and held it to his. “Swear it.”
“Why me?”
“Because you’re the reason. Swear it.”

“Our bodies cupped each other like hands.”

His voice was remote, almost careless. “You would not be displeased, I think. With how you look now.”

“I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.”

“Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.”

“No one has ever tried to take something from me.” “Never?”

Famous lasts words

“He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”

“Therapon was the word he used. A brother-in-arms sworn to a prince by blood oaths and love. In war, these men were his honor guard; in peace, his closest advisers.”

“This was how I came to be ten, and an orphan. This is how I came to Phthia.”