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drown herself behind her meticulous habits, nitpicking everything as if she could organize the grief out of her system.
I hate myself a little for forgetting that others are also learning how to move on from Corian’s death, that Adena is the more considerate one of us, that she knows to think of me even as she struggles.
Basean?”
“I know what the other Strikers think of me being on a patrol.”
Jeran is ruthlessly graceful when practicing the art of death. When he’s not, he can’t find his balance.
LOVE INTEREST
And then I realize, all of a sudden, that the only reason he’s a captive at all is because he wants to be. Because he wants to die.
This is the love interest??
“Why did you choose to save him, then?” she asks. “He’s someone important
side. You’ll see, it will come out when it’s ready.
As Adena walks over to Jeran and touches his shoulder, I’m hit with the realization that, if Jeran were ever to die, it would not be a monster that killed him, but his father.
It’s where they used to find artifacts of the Early Ones’ books.”
Stay, he whispers in my mind, his voice hoarse with a sudden terror that I can’t explain. Please. Just for a while.
