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"With her soul in the spiral on its way to Hell, Sciona’s last thought was not of vengeance or legacy. It was of love."

2 chapters left but i'm not ready WTF

"Thomil.
God bless Thomil! He had hated—or loved—Sciona enough to finish her last spell. The laugh started low in Sciona’s stomach and slowly grew to shake her whole body."

I cannot I love them sm

“You do not repent your actions?”
“Of everyone in this room, I’m not the one who should be repenting, Archmage Justice.”

“I’ll do what I must to protect you,” Bringham said. Still playing the savior. Still acting like he hadn’t spent the night maiming women and children who posed little threat to him.

“That was the inevitable fate of a rotten city built on lies.”

“They are going to kill you, Sciona.” And with her, his absolution. Hence the fear in his eyes.
A malicious smile split Sciona’s face. “Then I’ll die.”

“We all bear the burden of knowledge in different ways, Freynan. Some of us endeavor to do good.”
“Good? Do you honestly think this balances your scales, Archmage? Do you think that helping to advance me—or the dozen women who might have come after me or the hundred women after them—really makes up for mass slaughter? And, in your case, mass sterilization?”

“It was how he got to sleep at night beside his wife, Sciona imagined. The corpses that had made his fortune weren’t girls like his daughters, weren’t ladies like his wife, weren’t old men and women like his esteemed parents. The people he fed on had to be of intrinsically lower quality. They had to be monsters.”

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"Even this, the most quintessentially Tiranish instrument of conquest, was ultimately stolen from the Kwen."