Only the power. If I just think of this problem like an energy siphoner, I don’t need to stop feeling this way. I just need to take control of the energy the feeling has created inside me. Then it won’t matter what’s in my heart.” She put a hand to her chest with passion where before there had been only pain, fingers clutching the front of her nightgown as she finally drew a deep breath. “What I’m experiencing—this evil feeling—doesn’t have to matter if I can just do tangible good with it. Maybe Heaven isn’t out of reach.” “That is not how God measures goodness, Highmage.” “Not the god of
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