The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga #1)

by John Gwynne

“I make a choice, each and every day,” he said, his smile gone now. “I think on what I have. On what is before me. You. Breca. And they make my heart swell and my head giddy. There is no room left for any dwelling on the past.”

“Fear is no bad thing,” Orka said. “How can you be brave if you do not feel fear?” “I don’t understand,” Breca said, frowning. “Courage is being scared of a task and doing it anyway.”

Strange, how we revert to the behaviour of our childhood, when back in the presence of our family. I had so much to say: a fine speech planned.