Rain of Shadows and Endings

by Melissa K. Roehrich

“I’ve been giving her space and time to adjust, but this is the second time she’s run from me,” Theon said, urging Osiris to walk from the stables. “And it will be the last.”

“If I have to chase you down while naked, I cannot be held entirely responsible for what will happen when I catch you.”

“I never know what you are going to do. It is infuriatingly intriguing.”

“It’s something you can’t learn until you’re forced to walk through it, but you’d know that strength grows in the moments you think you can’t go on, but you do anyway. Strength is fighting back. Strength is doing whatever it takes to claim what is yours, even if others try to convince you it is not yours to take.”