"I lost everything that ever mattered to me and have only just gotten back my life," I say quietly. "Going with Rose means letting him pair me up with a Nightmare, and that's an arrangement I'll never be free of. I don't have it in me to be chained to anyone or anything else ever again." "Even you've got to admit that you're being selfish." "He's the gods' favorite, not me. The war doesn't hinge on me being the self-sacrificing one.
