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But a witch can only draw on one source, so to access wild magic, they must sever their connection to the Well, then connect to wild magic through evil acts of sacrifice, revenge, and murder. The longer they draw their power solely from wild magic, the more their soul twists and rots, until they are that which they seek: evil, through and through.
I have seen evil. But until this moment with Bertram, I had not realized how often it wore the face of apathy.
Verpiss dich, jäger.
But her rage is so… It’s like a storm at night, full of lightning, beautiful in its fury.
“I believe in God,” I tell her. “I am Christian. But I reject the Church.”
“There is a difference,” I say quietly, “between someone who holds a personal belief and someone willing to kill anyone who doesn’t share that belief.”
I thought I knew stubborn. I thought I was stubborn. This man makes it a religion.
“Normalcy has a way of breeding acceptance—when darkness is all people know, they forget to ask for the light.”
She stirs, murmuring in that liminal space between sleep and awake, and I close my eyes, wishing for the sun to eat itself in fiery death and cast us in perpetual darkness rather than rise.
We are not born into our nature; we choose it. And although the people and places around us may influence our lives, our decisions seal our fate.
“that I want you to throw me against the wall of this castle and make me see that god of yours.”
No priest would ever take a vow of chastity if he tasted a kiss like hers first. And I am no priest.
She is a feast I will spend the rest of my life starving for.
“You’re not,” Holda says, repeating my words. “You are not a protector.” She kneels down before me, so that we are eye to eye. “But fortunately for you, Fritzi does not need a protector. She needs a warrior.”
“I need you to know, this is not some illicit tryst I ask of you,” I say, searching her eyes. “When I say I want you, I mean all of you, for all of time. I do not want your body alone, Friederike; I want you, and I give myself to you, all of me that you desire.”
“Love is never a sin.”
“No buts. No corollaries or exceptions. Love is not a sin. It never has been, and it never will be. Anyone who tries to twist that simple truth is the one who sins.”
