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For me, maybe in the beginning. But now? I didn’t think so. It was him—who he was. His strength and intelligence. His kindness, despite all that he’d seen and surely suffered. His loyalty to his people—those he cared for. It was how ending a life still affected him. It was how he made me
feel. That, for the briefest moments, I wasn’t a monster. That I was someone. Me. Not whatever I had been shaped into.
“Like cities forever laid to waste. Kingdoms shattered and rebuilt. Great and…terrible wars—wars between Kings…and between Queens.”
“But I also saw her. I saw them. A Chosen and a descendant of the First.” The eather burned brightly in Penellaphe’s eyes as they met mine. “A Queen of Flesh and Fire. And him, a King risen from Blood and Ash, who ruled side by side with man. And they…they felt right. They felt like hope.”
A first daughter, with blood full of fire, fated for the once-promised King. And the second daughter, with blood full of ash and ice, the other half of the future King. Together, they will remake the realms as they usher in the end.’”
“Your paths have always ended in your death before you even saw twenty-one years of life.”
“It’s love,” Holland answered. “Love is the one thing that not even fate can contend with.”
“You are a warrior, Seraphena. You always have been. Just like she learned to become.” Tiny bumps rose all over my skin. “No.” He shook his head. “You have had many names.” “No,” I repeated. “You have lived many lives,” he continued. “But it is that one, the first one, that Eythos remembered when he answered Roderick Mierel’s summons. He always remembered her.”
She is why life continues.”
“If you were to die, there would be nothing but death in all the kingdoms and all the realms.”
“You are the heir to the lands and seas, skies and realms. A Queen instead of a King. You are the Primal of Life.”
