it’s because no one can do everything alone. If that were a lesson I’d learned better I wouldn’t have had to rely on the accidental grace of my friends being in the Cataclysm yesterday to prevent a magical disaster. You know how many people have berated me for that oversight?” Karisa looks at me mutely. “Zero,” I say. “You want to guess how many people have rightly yelled at me for not relying on them sufficiently?” Deniel coughs. Karisa almost smiles. “Is it all of them?” I sigh. “Very nearly. Do you think you could manage to make different mistakes than me? I really do have this one solidly
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