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But it is like droplets of blood, dripping into a bowl of fresh spring water, I thought. Mix it well enough, and you can’t see the blood. But would you drink it? Let the taste run down your throat? How can one know liquid so clear could also bear such a taint?
“Yes,” I found myself saying, “to read everything we can get our hands on.” “Oh dear,” murmured my asha-sister. “We’ve lost her.”
too ingrained in people’s beliefs. They would cling to their faith rather than see it shattered.
There is black in all our hearts. We hide it well enough and bring it out on harder nights, when we think no one sees.”
“Trust your enemies little,” it whispered, “and trust your friends even less.”
But you aren’t living if you’ve never faced danger that would give you a good, long piss in the pants, am I right?”
“Sometimes people do things because they want to, and not because they make sense.”
“This is what happens when you fancy yourself worthy of a god’s heart. You will bring about Kion’s destruction. You will wreck the lives of everyone you have ever loved, and you will doom them to hardship until the end of their days.
“Being a girl or a boy or a Deathseeker or an asha isn’t about how you were born; it’s about who you are. You had no say in how you were born, and neither did I,
