There is nothing I won’t do for her. Auren is life. I am death. That is why the goddesses paired us together. She is the gleaming power of light, and she needed her antithesis to stand at her side. Because she’s the golden sun of warmth and growth, while I am decay and darkness, with a magic that comes from the deepest core of the earth. There is no growth without rot. There is no sun without the dark sky. And there is no me without her. But even if we were never paired, it wouldn’t matter. Because I would have made her mine, whether the goddesses deemed it or not. And I’m going to find her.
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