“Do you think I don’t know what this is like? To lose the—” His voice caught. “The greatest love you’ve ever known? I do know this. And it was the fault of my own mistakes. No one else’s. No, Mische Iliae. I’m not here to earn Nyaxia’s favor. I am here because someone I once loved very much believed in the power of fate. The power of even the most inconsequential person to change it. Her goddess sent me to you, not my own. And I know that there is nothing I can ever do to right the terrible ways I wronged her. Not in life, and certainly not in death. But.” He leaned closer, fury burning in the
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