Alice plops down next to me, an easy grin on her face. “You know, I thought it was one-sided, but you’re gone for him too, aren’t you?” She ignores my shocked expression and keeps chatting in that deceptively casual tone. “Don’t bother to deny it. You’re sitting here watching him like you’re seeing the next fifty, seventy, hundred years stretch out before you and you don’t hate the idea of it.” I blink. “I’m thirty-five. There’s no way I’ll live another hundred years.” “You will if you stay here. It has something to do with the magic infused in every bit of our realm. It makes people live
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