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April 10 - April 15, 2018
The lights of this city work on people as if we are all werewolves howling for an electric moon. A warlock tried to destroy the world here once, before my time. The leader of my clan made a disastrous experiment with drugs here, against my advice, and made the city her slaughter ground.
an effort to banish the intruding horror of waking up as a child with all he loved dead, and silver fire burning in his veins.
Sometimes it was good to be without feeling. Sometimes being human hurt too much, and Zachariah could not afford pity now.
He could scarcely remember a reason why he fought.
His brothers’ voices could be gone, along with the crash of the sea and all the light of the world that no longer touched him. The dead
Why had he ever fought?
Tessa, he thought. Will.
as if the sight pitched him onto a boat on a different sea, one in which he could never keep his balance.
Life and death were nothing but ashes in the air.
But then had come a laugh, and the sound had woken things inside him that he had feared dead. Once woken to the world, Zachariah did not want to be blind to any of it.
There are more kinds of love than stars, said Brother Zachariah. If you do not feel one, there are many others. You know what it is to care for family and friends. What we keep sacred, keeps us safe. Consider that by trying to cut yourself off from the possibility of being hurt, you shut the door on love and live in darkness.
“I came over all nauseous for a second. Can’t think why. I heard Silent Brothers were withdrawn. I was looking forward to withdrawn!”
It had been a long time since he felt the light, and longer since he could truly enjoy the simple pleasure of it.
They were not the eyes of a soldier, but a warrior.
If you pretend to feel nothing, the pretense may become true,
blade and shield. You belong together and to each other not because you are the same but because your different shapes fit together to be a greater whole, a greater warrior for a higher purpose. I always believed we were not merely at our best together, but beyond the best either of us could be apart.
like sunrise bursting as a bright surprise upon the water.
All these people were struggling not to feel, trying to freeze their hearts inside their chests until the cold fractured and broke them.