“If there’s anything I’ve learned from having eleven partners bonded to me for life,” he said gently, “it’s that there are all kinds of love, Tar. You talk about things with Kirah that you never share with Jeet. And you have—things—with Jeet . . . that you’ll never have with me. And that’s fine. We’re the only Raybearers on earth. What we have is . .
