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Life and light, she thought, were stubborn things. They must, and they would, bloom and shine against the dark. They would not be snuffed out like a candle, but flame on and on and on.
as the pieces death takes from you find a way to live without them. You honor their death by living and doing and standing.”
Arguing with a woman most times gives ya a head worse than a night of drinking bad ale. But argue with a pregnant one, and ya’ll have your balls kicked blue.”
And home, Breen thought, wasn’t always a place. Sometimes it was a person.
I got you, and I’ve got somebody who loves me and wants to make a home with me. There’s nothing I’ve ever wanted more than that.”
“Do you see my outfit? Are you seeing how I own this outfit? Nobody who looks this fine’s got nerves.”
Ah, but he looks at you, my darling girl. How he looks at you.”
He brought her hands to his lips. “You love me. I see it, and I feel it, and I know it. You haven’t given me the words, Breen Siobhan.” “I—” “Because you want them first. Need them first, and that’s fair enough. I want no one but you. I think I never could, not through my heart, because I always knew you’d come. I love all you are, and that was a hard road for me to travel, as I knew it might come to what it did today, and I wouldn’t be there to catch you. I wouldn’t be meant to, do you see?”
“To love you and not be able to have a life with you? I had love and duty pulling at me. I’m sworn.”
“Yet today, I wanted you to know, and all to know. This is my choice. I choose you because you have my heart, and only want you to choose me and give yours in turn. I swear I thought you had when I badgered you into putting the sapphires on.”
He spun her around until Bollocks came out from under the table, rose up on his hind feet to dance. And at the end of the longest day, with the battle won and the moons shedding their light, she stood with him, in Talamh, a child of two worlds. Ready for what happened next.
