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I will be here. Always." Skoll settles at the promise, accepting this hunt. We will protect her, my wolf and I, until she learns to tear her enemies apart herself.
What am I? Tenacious. Nobody can take that from me.
It's amazing how quickly something can be forgotten in the face of something new and exciting to think about. Nothing like a new distraction to make them forget the last one.
"We often achieve far more if we are trying to beat an adversary."
What do you do first if you want to get better?" Learn. Learn first, practice second.
"Do not tempt me like this, witch!
"Stop trying to do the same pointless shit over and over and actually do what works." The words strike home like arrows. Do what works. That's the same as "do what you can, ignore what you can't."
She's impulsive, violent, and blunt. All things my family tried to train out of me my whole life. She's strong, righteous, and fierce. All things a voiceless princess could never be allowed to show. She's carefree, playful, and ambitious. All things a person destined to die any day would never dare to embrace, because tomorrow might never come. Tears fill my eyes as understanding crashes over me. Thyrvi isn't just my val-tivar—she's my true nature, given form.
"Let go of this idea you've been fed all your life that you need to be just like everyone else. Let go of the voices telling you to do exactly what they are doing, then punishing you when it doesn't work."
"Because the actions of another person do not define my own," I tell him.
"Actions have consequences. Some good, some bad, some utterly unforeseeable. Intent is power, princess.
He took a fucking brand for me. I love him. The force of the realization is overwhelming, and I suck in air wrong and end up swallowing a sob. I love him. Oh, gods in Asgard, I love him. It's not lust or fascination or obsession. It's love. I can't be without him. I never, ever want to be apart from him. I would do more than take a brand for him. I would lay down my life for him.
"Kain, I think I'm in love with you." I bite my lip as I stare up at him. Flames dance in his irises as his chest heaves. "Princess, I've been fighting falling in love with you since the week you got here." "Did you win?" "It's the only fight I've ever lost."
"Then you must not blame yourself either. You must afford yourself the same kindness you give me."
"Do what you can, not what you can't," I tell her. "We can't change the past, but we can shape the future,
