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“What makes you a shitty king also makes you a good man.”
“Some,” she answered. “And some see her as the one true queen and fall to their knees in her presence, believing her chosen by the guardians of Ithicana. Perhaps even by God himself.” Keris grimaced, having little tolerance for fanaticism.
You are not heartless, Keris Veliant, no, no…You are a man whose heart decides all, even when it risks costing him everything.”
“There are moments in life where one stands at a crossroads, and each path leads to a future so wildly different from the other that it seems impossible they stemmed from the same place.
I’d have been left alive with a shattered heart in the ashes of a future that you burned, and I challenge you to tell me that’s not a fucking betrayal, Valcotta.”
What matters is that even after my bones are dust and my name lost to history and history lost to time, I will feel this way for you.”
“Except peace wasn’t a dream I conceived alone, and if I attempt to achieve it alone, I will fail.
“Every life I have, I will gladly spend on you.”
“I find that an impossible task, for nothing in this world or the next comes before you in my heart.”
