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Then I’m thinking, maybe nothing’s ever as distant as it seems. If moon rays can strike a Fae’s shoulder, and if a bird’s call can travel a great distance, and if a girl can find herself galloping from one world to the other, maybe that same girl can reach the top of a mountain.
Just like that, I make a forbidden friend. Just like that, he pulls a fatal trick. Just like that, he steals my heart.
“My name is my own. No, I’m not an owl. And yes, I can talk.”
Guess sorrow’s like this. One moment it’s gone, then it surges back with a jolt, kicking you right in the teeth.
Maybe that’s what hope is—a good cry before getting up again.
“Maybe every realm’s got its monsters and saviors.”
“You’re unlike anyone, Lark.”
“What trickery is this?” he grates out. “What have you done to me?” I release a breathless scoff. “When will you learn? To have an effect, mortals don’t need magic.” “Then what is this nonsense?” “I don’t know.” “But you feel it, too.” “Come on. You know I do.”
“You exhaust me. I want to let you go, but I can’t. I want to punish you, but I can’t. I want to take your mouth again, but cursed it all, I can’t. Why?”
Do you place so little value on your own perceptions, that you would take the first spoken word afforded to you?”
“I was a fucking child. I didn’t think to question the story.” “Not when you grew up?” “Especially not then.”
Which means that to get through this maze, I’m gonna have to break my heart.
“Dammit, don’t say that. You’ve got kin to save! You’ve got a mountain to preserve!” “And I’ve got a mortal to love.”
A thousand stones crumble from my shoulders. He’s trying to help me, not stop me. He recouped that bargain from the summit not to sabotage me but to guard me on these bridges.
“Why?” the female demands, her throat filled with gravel. “Why, Cerulean?” “Because I love her,” he confesses.
And the Lark said, “We may fly separately, but let our direction be the same.”
It took us nine years to find each other, thirteen days to bond, and one hour to lose everything all over again.
It will be my privilege, for I want my last vision of you to be here, at the top of the world, conquering my whole universe.
“Hate breaks hearts. Love reinforces them.”
