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If the Eternal Flame wanted to win, they should have made better choices. They all knew the risks, but that was never enough incentive for them. They refused to pay the price that victory demands, and I am sick of watching you try to pay it for them.”
“You didn’t save me,” he said when he was finally capable of speech. “You just put us in hell for two years.”
“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.”
“Helena, I’m tired.” She looked up and saw it in his eyes. The war had eaten him; it had carved him to the bone and not stopped even then. He was scarcely more than a ghost.
It wasn’t fair that he got to die and she was left to live with everything.
“It seems I am cursed to love as you do.”
Living is not worth it to me if you’re the one who keeps paying the price for it.
“We have to stop hurting ourselves for each other,” she finally said. “Both of us. We’re not going to last if this is the only way we know how to love.”
They were as bright silver as a lightning storm. Helena gave a sob and held her tighter. “Kaine—she has your eyes.”
How different it could have been if the international community had decided to put even a negligible amount of effort into caring sooner.
“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.
