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“Do I know you?” she asked as her eyes slid closed. “I suppose you do.”
“Ferron always comes for me,” she whispered.
“Well, you—you have a natural talent for it. In another life, you could be a healer.”
“One of life’s great ironies,”
“And…?” “He wants you, Marino,” Crowther said. “Both now and after the war.”
Each of the eight points had a distinct concept using combinations of symbols. Helena parsed the meaning slowly. Calculating, Cunning, Devoted, Determined, Ruthless, Unfailing, Unhesitating, and Unyielding.
“Don’t die, Marino. I might miss you.”
“You’re like a rose in a graveyard,” he said, and his lips twisted into a bitter smile. “I wonder what you could have turned into without the war.”
“Will you take your hair down? I want to see it.”
“There. My mane.”
“Don’t die, Kaine,” she said.
“All right, then, but only because you asked.”
“You are not expendable. You don’t get to push everyone away so that
they’ll feel comfortable using you and letting you die.”
“You are not replaceable,”
Kaine Ferron was a dragon, like his family before him. Possessive to the point of self-annihilation.
“You’re mine. You swore yourself to me. Now and after the war. I’m going to take care of you. I’m not going to let anyone hurt you. You don’t have to be lonely. Because you’re mine.”
“Be careful, Kaine. Don’t die.”
“Call me, and I will come.”
“Be careful.” It was always the last thing she said to him before he left her on some rooftop. She would hold his face in her hands, staring into his eyes. “Don’t die.”
“You’re mine. I’ll always come for you.” He always did.
“Because I have warned you, if something happens to you, I will personally raze the entire Order of the Eternal Flame. That isn’t a threat, it’s a promise. Consider your survival as much a necessity to the Resistance as Holdfast’s. If you die, I will kill every single one of them. Given that the risk to their lives is the only way to make you value your own.”
“I don’t want to choose. I always have to choose, and I never get to choose you. I’m so tired of not getting to choose you.”
Go. Live. Tell our daughter I saved you both. That—is what I want.”
“Love isn’t as pretty or pure as people like to think. There’s a darkness in it sometimes. Kaine and I go hand in hand. I made him who he is. I knew what that
array meant when I saved him. If he’s a monster, then I’m his creator.”
She was a non-active member of the Order of the Eternal Flame and did not fight.
