On me, they want to enact Kevlane’s Bond. To be used by such a person … trust me, Aaron. It’s better to be dead. Aaron grunted, his mood growing sour as he considered. Not making me feel any better, firefly. And as for better to be dead, I’m going to have to disagree with you. Where there is life, there is always the hope that things will get better again. False hope more often than not, but hope just the same. The world of the dead is bereft of such hope—the worms eat it and, believe me, they gorge their fill. There are worse things than death, Aaron. Only a thing the living say; I think,
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