“I made a promise to the stars to end them for this failure,” she said in a low voice, the cold certainty in her words making the hairs along the back of my neck stand on end. “And I intend to keep it.” Silence fell away from us once more and I could feel the echoes of her words spilling out over the sky and beyond, the certainty and power of that oath she’d made, and the knowledge that she wouldn’t stop until she saw it fulfilled.
