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“Then I saw you in the hallway. Just now. And it was like my heart started beating again. I feel like I’ve finally woken up, and I realize now I was mostly just a selfish bastard who could never do what he needed to do to truly protect you from the biggest threat in your life: me.”
“You brought me back to life, Mariah. And I don’t care if this means our very existence is now damned, or if this makes me the weakest man in the entire kingdom. But I love you. And I will love you until the stars blink out of existence and the moons drop from the sky. I love you with everything I am, and everything I will ever be.”
“You brought me back to life too, Andrian.”
“I do. More than the moons in the sky.”
“Let’s go show them what moonlight really looks like, nio.”
A shudder of power wracked through the earth, a tremor strong enough to wake the dragons of the world that had long since gone to sleep.
“I love you, nio. No matter what happens, that will always be true.”
“There has always been but one war, and it threatens more than just Onita. The One Who Fell, the Scourge of all worlds, has awoken. And he will come for you.”
“I have warned you, all your life, that love is a weakness. You are a threat to everyone who serves him, the only one who can stop him. He wants you gone. And if you do not forgo all weaknesses, he will get what he wants. Now—wake up.”
“Love is a weakness. Wake up.”
This was Andrian. Her final Armature. Her consort. Yes, she loved him; that was no longer a secret.
She was utterly broken, betrayed, and alone. And there was no one coming to save her. Not even herself.
