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“All magic is beautiful,” she said, “and terrible. Do you not see the beauty in yours, or the terror in mine?” Her fingers brushed his cheek. “You can stop a heart, and I can stop your breath.”
“Someone starved of something will take whatever they can get and make it into what they need, because they do not know there is more to be had in the world.”
They were a swirling, ever-changing harmony, his peace for her tempest, his restlessness for her calm, his recklessness for her planning, her independence for his loyalty. Night and day, dusk and dawn, the end, and the beginning.
“We defend hardest those lies that protect our failings.
“He is stronger, with you. Are you stronger with him, Charah of the Sixth House? Agassi of all of Sarkum’s forces?”
She thought it a cruel irony that she missed him more when she was with him than when she was away.
From nothing comes everything, and back to nothing, and again.
