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We are whole.
Do you wish to share your aching back with me? Leave me alone and stop borrowing trouble. Not every problem in the world belongs to you.
The wolf was right. Sometimes there was little point to sharing pain.
What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you.
“So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn’t choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day.”
And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.
A slow smile spread over his face. “I believe in you. You are my new beginning.”
Little brother, do not treat me as if I am already dead, or dying. If you see me that way, then I would rather truly be dead. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow will bring my death.
I dreamed a strange dream. I dreamed I was safe.
Our cabin and the fireside. That would be enough for me. It is yours. I know.
Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example but by experience of it.
If ever you attempt that again, I will leave you. Completely and forever. You will not see my body, you will not touch my thoughts, and you will not even catch my scent near your trails. Do you understand me?
What is right. Be what you are, Farseer and Old Blood both. Even if it kills us, it will be easier than these endless denials. I’d rather die being true to ourselves.
“If you will have me,” the Fool offered humbly, “I will serve you as I served your father, and your grandfather before him.”
Yes, you will be yourself again, and that is as it should be,
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
