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That kind of sacrifice creates a debt, and there’s nothing magic likes better than the great hollow of a debt.
“Men always mean harm. The question is simply ‘when’.”
“Are you saying I inherited this foolishness?” she says. “That’s sort of a relief, actually. I thought it was a condition unique to me.”
Nikodem is the one that most closely resembles a bird of prey. His eyes are a luminous bronze, catching the light like a flame is flickering behind them. He looks at Dymitr like he’s spotted a mouse in the grass to hunt.
“You only know what I’ve showed you,” Dymitr says. “That…” Niko touches his lips to Dymitr’s cheek, right beside his mouth. “… is true of everyone, all the time.”
It’s Oppression 101: find a bad guy, and if you can’t, make one up.”
Heart failure. It was the suddenness that had rattled her, and now Niko suffered the consequences for his father’s mortal frailty.
“No, I’m here to ask you to destroy a Knight of the Holy Order.” “You have blood on your hands already,” she says. “Why can’t you get rid of this person yourself?” “I…” He trails off. He doesn’t know where to begin. “Which Knight?” Ala asks, with a sharpness that suggests she already knows what his answer will be. Dymitr lets himself go to his knees. “Me,” he says, and he closes his eyes.
“You think your victims will be satisfied by your suffering?” “I think my victims are dead.”
“Might not want to watch,” he says to Niko and Ala. “If you have to feel it, the least I can do is see it,” Niko replies, sharp.
“Is this what you want from me?” he says. “To change?” She crouches in front of him, and reaches for his hand. He gives it to her, and holds on. “I want you to live,” she says. “I want you to try.”
Even a Knight plagued by guilt is a human being, driven by the desire to spare himself annihilation, isn’t he? But he feels regret instead.
They will hunt you as if you are a dangerous animal, and that is, I assume, what you want. To make an enemy of those to whom you once belonged.”
