“You don’t have to do this for me,” Emma was saying, softly but earnestly, in a voice Cristina had never heard her use before. “I think I do,” Julian said. “I think I remember making a vow to that effect.” “ ‘Whither thou goest, I will go, whatever stupid thing you do, I shall do also’?” Emma said. “Was that the vow?” Julian laughed. If there were more words between the two, Cristina didn’t hear them spoken. She let the door close behind her without looking back again. She had once thought she would have a parabatai herself; though it was a dream she had long put to bed, there was something
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