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callum…

“as is the balfour family. their name will be honored long after the great kingdoms fall… it will become an old, honored one, long after my bones turn to ash. it is a name, fates willing, you may one day know.”

“rise for the one who is born of blood and ash, the light and the fire, and the brightest moon. rise for the consort of the shadowlands.”

“not everyone can always be okay. and if you happen to find that you’re not, you can talk to me. we’ll make sure you’re okay. agreed?”

“that’s kayleigh balfour. the princess of irelone. delfai is irelone - at cauldra manor.”

“but i’m only flesh and blood, and you are flesh and fire.”
“then you should be careful, lest you become nothing more than ember and ash.”

she’s an idiot

“…a primal of both life and death?”
“…a primal of both life and death, is not meant to exist. it would be unthinkable for the embers of both to thrive in one being. but if they cold? the kind of power they’d wield? it would be truly absolute. they could unravel realms in the same breath they created new ones.”