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Trouble is the looker, she’d answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first. Why do you want to die? I don’t, she’d say. I just want to live.
fear nothing, even death? Are you afraid of dying? Holland had asked him in the alley. And Kell was. Had always been, ever since he could remember. He feared not living, feared ceasing to exist. Lila’s world may believe in Heaven and Hell, but his believed in dust.
“I’d rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
“You poor thing,” said Lila coldly, pushing him away. “What do you want? Pity? You won’t find it from me.”
“Love doesn’t keep us from freezing to death, Kell,” she continued, “or starving, or being knifed for the coins in our pocket. Love doesn’t buy us anything, so be glad for what you have and who you have because you may want for things but you need for nothing.”
Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.”
My life is his life, thought Kell. His life is mine. Bind it to mine and bring him back.
But more than that, he wanted her to suffer. For his brother. His prince. Because in that moment, staring into her wide blue eyes, all he could see was Rhy.
