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She kissed him. She kissed him and every explanation went out of him. Every twistable word, every affectation, every notion of play and counter—this is what he wanted to say, he realized. Just this.
“There may be a line,” Farideh said, “but I would hope crossing it had more to do with hurting people and being selfish, with letting bad things happen instead of stopping them and not stepping up when you’ve done wrong—with a great many things more important than the company I keep.
Farideh knew if she told him she was sorry, he would snap at her and say he didn’t want her pity. If she asked what made him fall, he would take it as taunting him. If she offered the parallel, the way her fear of losing her pact made her think of his losing his powers … well, that would only end badly, destroying the modicum of camaraderie they’d built up. And if she said nothing, she would regret it. “It sounds like something you were very suited to,” she told him.
This HAS to be inspired by multiple-choice dialogue responses in rpg games!
