“I never told you how much it meant to me,” he said. I smiled. “Yes, you did. Not with words. But with something even more valuable.” He shook his head. “It wasn’t enough to save you.” “Then we’ll try again. Together.” I held out my hand. “I will never promise you, Asar, that it won’t hurt, because it will. I will never promise you that we won’t fail, because we could. And that terrifies me, too. But it’s in that fear that we hold our greatest strength. We need yours, now.”
