I felt it then, an echo of what they experienced at the sight of her, and it was daunting. Such love, such focus. It washed through me, my eyes forced to close as tears pricked at the corners. I’d never expected to feel something like this again, and the awareness of that seemed to make it swell further and further, filling me up, running into all of the cracks in my soul until… “Take a breath, lass,” a deep voice said, a hand coming to rest on my shoulder blades and somehow that sensation became a part of everything else I was experiencing. “But—” I began to say. “We know.” Soren’s voice was
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