“I should not be one of the things you choose to keep in your heart. Not because I don’t deserve it. But because you and I are cryptarchs, and you must, you must be able to wield me as a tool. You think that you don’t want to do that.” He shook his head. “But what you really don’t want is to fall into grief again. You don’t want to think of yourself the way you did when you were at your lowest.”
