“The way I have always seen it,” Gideon said as he sipped his wine, “is that we have only two choices when the heart is broken. The first is to allow it to heal. It is quite astounding what the human heart is able to overcome. Though it shall never be quite as strong as it was – its foundations will be forever weakened – it can heal. The second...” Here, his eyes danced to me. For the first time, I saw something in them that made my blood run cold. “…is to turn it into so impenetrable a thing, such a fortress, that it will never be breached again.”
