Gravity Lost (Ambit's Run, #2)

by L.M. Sagas

Open and bold, as if she either hadn’t yet learned to hide her heart, or had simply, defiantly, chosen not to. All of Jal’s earnestness, none of his caution. What would it be like, Eoan wondered, for her to live in a universe that fostered that sort of fearlessness, rather than challenged it.

Kids … they just had this way of making the world better. Of making you want to make the world better. “You know,” she said, softly, “I’m gonna be too big for this soon.” Wasn’t like she’d get too heavy, but he knew that wasn’t what she meant. “But not today?” he asked. “Not today,” she agreed. He could live with that.

He could protect her from a lot of things, but not from growing up. That was the way it was meant to be.