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Who knew that being a librarian required so much physical prowess?
But I’m not giving up, you know. I believe those children chose me to be their mar for a reason. I believe I’m meant to help them, meant to take them in, just as your family took you in.
I know how utterly and completely eclipsed I am.
“Zugath torg!” Lir sighs dramatically. “Yes,” I answer, glancing again down the empty passage, which still seems to glow with the afterlight of Ilusine’s coming and going. “I couldn’t put it better myself.”
My gaze locks with another. The Prince. Standing beside Ilusine. But looking at me. He offers a slow smile. Moonlight gleams in his eyes.
The line of his jaw hardens. “When have I obligated you to do anything?” Never. I realize it with the force of a thunderclap. Not once since the moment he purchased my Obligation has he made use of it.
“Go where you will,” he says. “Do as you wish. All that I ask of you, now or ever, is that you be whole. Courageously whole.”
