The legends romanticized it, making Diarmuid out to be a ladies’ man. What using his ability amounted to, however, was rape—no two ways about it. Just thinking about it had me seething with fury. Finally, I was forced to face the fact that he might have sexually assaulted Fallyn, despite his promises to the contrary. Up until that moment, I hadn’t wanted to think about it. Thinking about it brought me face to face with my own failure to save Fallyn, and brought to light that it was my fault the fucking scum had taken her in the first place. When I used Fionn’s magical insight, it forced me to
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