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She pulled a knife from her thigh and jabbed it into the air between them. “You!” “Have been as long as I can remember.”
“Don’t you ever do that again, you son of a bitch.” “Not the son of anything.”
“It’s not like I need charging or anything.” “Your people call it eating and sleeping.”
“I know close to a million words in this language, by some counts, and I still don’t know the right ones to say to you.”
“You wanna know the big fucking secret?” She leaned over the table, closing the distance between them. “ It’s called being alive!”
“Does a thing have to be flesh and blood to be alive?” he asked, voice low and brimming with anger. “Do humans own that term, that they get to define it?”
Beneath the weight of her despair, she wanted to live.
“You still bother because it means…hope. That everything will be okay, some day. Because it means a chance at a future in a world that wants to destroy us. It means you are not alone.”
“Let this ring be my vow. To protect you. To provide for you. To give you all you need that’s within my power, and find a way to give you whatever’s not.”
“Then I vow to protect you, too, to the best of my ability. To place my trust in you and never break yours. To remind you, every day, that you are alive.”
The inhabitants of the old world had been fond of boundaries. Their reward was the boundless Dust.
That dance spoke everything in your heart before you said your first fuck off to me.”
“Will you remember me, when I’m gone?” His stride faltered, body going rigid before he stopped. She looked up again to find his eyes on her. “Even through another Black Out, I could never forget you, Lara Brooks.”
“I’d kick you, if it would hurt you more than me.” “We’ve already established that I have feelings. Those can be hurt, too.”
“Smart ass.” “My ass is, at best, of average intelligence.”
“My name is Newton. After the English mathematician, of course, as I’m sure you’ve already deduced.” “Who?” Ronin and Lara asked simultaneously.
“Even after all these years, I haven’t had enough time to love you.”
“I will love you even after darkness takes me,” he said, softly.
