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When a woman faces an impossible problem, whether she be mother or queen, she must find a solution. She must find a way. So I will.
King Midas may always be remembered for his golden touch, but I will always remember him for the way that touch destroyed. He wasn’t a gift of wealth. He was a curse of unending greed.
The favored was nothing but a prisoner.
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.
“Are you going to start listening to me?” “Yes. Sometimes. When it seems like the right thing to do. And if it suits me.”
“Oh, Goldfinch. My love for you consumes every part of my soul. It’s in every word, every movement. With each morning that dawns and every night that falls. You are completely mine, and I am yours, and that is all I ever need in this life and all the others.”
My wings flutter, my heart soars, and I know. That after everything. After all of it. This was what I was always fighting for. This was why I kept going even in the bleakest of times. Even with every stumbling fall. Because this love? This is what it feels like… to fly.
