“You were the one stubborn enough to say you would descend into another plane of existence to fetch me if I died,” she snapped, as if he could hear her, as if he stood in front of her healthy and well to take her chiding. “This wasn’t how it was supposed to go, Orion. What are you doing swapping our places?” He had the heart of gold. She was the cataclysmic mess. If asked to turn it around and choose Orion’s life over hers, she would do it, but she didn’t know how. She wasn’t built to be the savior—she was only a girl afraid of the world, and then Orion had come along to pull her out of the
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