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Fight for the world that might have been, and yet still could be.”
Your eyes are like fire.
His grief and sorrow still lived inside him and always would, and he imagined there would yet be days when getting out of bed was an indescribable torment. But today, he was standing.
hope is the light that shines even on the darkest night.”
Will you hurt me to get her back?
We in Red Crown say this to each other when we need courage:
For crown and country, we protect the true light.”
Navi would reject violence altogether if she could. But if she met Simon again, she would kill him.
He would lose her a thousand times over if it meant he would first have the chance to love her.
To rise, first one must burn.”
“I don’t love you,” she whispered fiercely against his skin. A moment passed. Then she felt Simon’s hand cup the back of her head, cradling her to him. His lips touched her brow. “I know,” he replied, his voice choked with sadness. “I don’t love you either.”
“We are more than our anger,”
“Feel the earth beneath your feet and the wind that moves the trees See the shadows shift across the fields, the tide that pulls the seas Hear the whip of metal forged in prayer The crack and spit of flame Watch the sun climb up the sky and burn— A fire no sword can tame!” —“The Glory of the Seven,” traditional Celdarian war hymn
We all have light and darkness inside us. That is what it means to be human.”
She met Rielle’s eyes. Their gazes locked. And then, as one, with the world’s ageless heartbeat drumming in their blood, Eliana and Rielle rose with blazing palms and turned to meet the fate they had chosen.
And on a small terrace outside the finest suite of rooms in Baingarde, the king of Celdaria cradled his daughter against his chest, watching the horizon bloom bright with farewell.
