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“You can learn to wield water too,” he says, returning to our previous conversation. “As a queen, you have access to all four elements now. It’s only a matter of learning how to manipulate them.”
“Of course I do. I know how capable you are. Not only are you a queen, but you were strong enough to steal my cold, dead heart. If you can do that, you can do anything.” His tone is teasing, his crooked smirk such a wicked sight it has my heart racing.
“Afraid of what? That you’ll actually enjoy your life beneath my rule and serve me out of respect rather than duty? Why, yes, what a terrifying thought.”
“Besides, I meant it. Compared to how you’ve mastered my heart, that hovering orb is nothing.”
“I can’t stand to see you like this. I’m going to kill them all.”
“Sounds like your blunders, if a single girl could upend your standing with the King of Bretton so easily.”
“Because water is the element of emotion. And the most powerful emotion of all is love, which you are no stranger to. All you have to do is open to it. All of it.”
I love you, Evelyn, she says straight into my mind. I love you too, Ma. You can do this. It’s the last thing she says before she disappears.
we will fight to the death if we must, but first we shall fight to live.
