“Do you know, Imrah, that you live on a truly beautiful world?” I asked, turning to take in the whole of that island of the dead before looking back at her. She was smiling then, and Valka smiled behind her. “I do,” the Keeper replied. “I have always struggled,” I said, “to stand still long enough to see it. All my life. All my life I’ve spent chasing my dream. That was what Siran betrayed, what Switch—my other friend—betrayed. I could not bear that they had dreams all their own.”
