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My mother was right—she’s always right.
“I’m with you until the end.”
“The police are a rival gang,” Professor Ito says. “Never forget that. They don’t actually want to destroy you—then they themselves would cease to exist. But they want to be the most powerful gang in the city. If you intend to take that spot, you will have to force homage from them.”
“Women are always more than they seem.”
Russian mermaids are called rusalki.
“The truth is always messy,” he says. “That’s why legends are lies. In real life, there’s no perfect narrative where the good guys and the bad guys all get what they deserve, and everything works out in the end . . .”
“You can have your revenge,” I repeat. “But only on the guilty. Not the innocent.”
They all have their flaws. They all make mistakes.
When I ponder what’s “right” and what’s “wrong,” I only know what I’d do myself.
I made a promise to her. And I always keep my promises.
She needs me, and I need her.
We draw life from each other. In the time we’ve been apart, we’ve both been slowly dying.
“I want you,” I say to her. “I want your wildness. I want your passion. I want you to love me the way you love the wind and the water and the outdoors. I want you to be untamable, except by me. I want you to be my wife.”