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“I have to let him go,” I whispered. “But I don’t think my heart is ready.” “You have a lifetime to let him go. You can hold on a little longer.”
“Raven,” he yelled from behind me. “There’s nowhere you can run that I will not find you. I will chase you all over this world if I have to.”
“You could have been a million things. And every time I let myself believe that you were truly who you’d shown yourself to be, my mind would rebel. Because how could you be so perfect in the midst of all this chaos? How could you want me? How could I deserve you?” His hands gripped my waist, and I didn’t not stop him as he lifted me.
Come what may, I had to do what I could.
“I wonder if there is anything he would not do for you. Your Dark King might be fearful, but he is equally fearless. He sent you to the land with no magic, not to save himself, as he would let everyone believe, but to save you. He feared what the others would do to you should he die. He never planned on joining you. Hadn't even thought about it. He simply accepted his death and cast to protect you.” Her pause was infinite and nothing at all. “He is worthy, if not broken. Though the broken things we keep tend to be the most extraordinary, do they not?”
“I've never known you to do anything lightly. You wreck worlds with mere thoughts and call down goddesses with sheer intention. You're unlike anything this world has ever known.”
“Don’t mistake my silence for sadness, Little Witch. It’s simply the foundation of my revenge.”
“Someone pulls a weapon on you, you don’t stop to ask questions. You fucking defend yourself. And you never, ever apologize for being the most powerful witch around.”
“This negativity isn't going to get you anywhere. If you cast that out into the world, that’s what you’ll get back. If you need hard love, I'll deliver it on a silver platter. I will not let you spiral into the sad existence that consumes the other wraiths. You are Kirsi Moondance. You were a powerful witch, spirit blessed long before your death. I refuse to believe there is nothing in this world that can bring you happiness.
We will do everything we can to save Nym because it is the right thing to do, but also because you are worthy. And I see you. Your misery is not hidden from me, Kirsi Moondance.”
They would never want me to be confident. Confidence is the same as recklessness in their minds. Confidence could lead me to combat the coven leaders, and Goddess knows we can’t have that.”
No innocence remained, just the honed weapons crafted by a deadly existence.
Her resolve was more powerful than some of the magic I’d seen from her coven. She may have been silenced, but it made her no less fierce.
I forced myself to remember that everyone here was fighting their own battle, and, though it felt like it, I was not alone.
Maybe he was a fool. But then I was too, so at least he was in great company.
Gossip was like poisoning the water and feeding it to your friends. Eventually, someone was going to be hurt by it. It was just a question of who.
Our family was what we made it. Who we chose to let in and love and protect us.
We were a broken, ramshackle, pieced together group, but we had each other and every day our bonds were tightening.
I was born to a line of fearsome witches.
“Fear only means you will suffer twice, shifter. Once at the onslaught of weakness, and again when faced with the thing you fear. It is far better to acknowledge your fear and then conquer it.”
I don’t think love is ever supposed to be easy. The work you put into it is what makes it so special.
I realized I had become someone’s villain. I’d wondered why Bastian had accepted the role so fully and now I understood. Like beauty, villainy was in the eye of the beholder.
Some people fear the fire, and some become it.
