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Yrina lifted up one hand. “Bravery.” Then she lifted the other. “Stupidity. They can follow him where they like—I wouldn’t follow him across a room.”
“How someone as lean as you can be so godawful strong is a mystery to me.” “Books are heavy.”
“I see you’ve stooped to threatening nuns,” she said as they stepped outside. “I can’t help but wonder if there’s much lower you can go, boy.” “One can always go lower.”
do want to remake the world so that I can be with you. So that I can get down on my knees and ask you to be my wife. So that I can put a crown on your head and make you my queen. So I can build a shrine and worship you as my goddess. I want all of these things, yet I face a future with none of them, and I don’t know whether I want to fall on my own blade or burn everything to ash because I do not want to let you go.”
“A lifetime wouldn’t be enough. Eternity wouldn’t be enough. Not when I want to map every star in the sky with you in my arms.”
“There is nothing I wouldn’t give you,” he said softly. “Nothing I wouldn’t do for you.”
Keris’s hand curved around her cheek, lifting her face. “Goddesses don’t kneel before men.”
“I love you, Valcotta. I will have you or I will have no one, because where you go, my heart goes with you.”
