The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

by Rachel Gillig

I’m not one of your precious gods, Diviner.” His eyes flickered in the darkness. “I’m the one who’s killing them.”

“I have disdain in me, yes.” Rory’s brows drew together, lips parted slightly enough for me to hear the shaky sound of his exhale. “But none for you.”

“You don’t have to be good, or useful, for someone to care about you.”

“The thing is—I think I’d do anything you asked of me.”

It is easier, swearing ourselves to someone else’s cause than to sit with who we are without one.”