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I fear the whole of my identity. I have a face I wear to show the world, but there is more to me than that. There are other faces concealed in me. I sense a past behind my past.
Fault has no place in the greater scheme of things, little one. Fault and guilt are as useless as apology once the deed is done. Once the action has been taken, all must endure what follows.
“I can’t go on pretending I don’t love you. I can’t pretend it doesn’t scare me spitless to see you in danger.”
When she touched me, I realized there could be something beyond good and evil. She…transcends.” He stared, unseeing. “In my dreams, I fly with her.”
Who loves you or who you love is not as significant as who you are.
“You were right, lad. Dragons change everything.”
The future of thousands ripples like a serpent through the water, and the destiny of a ship becomes the destination of the world.”
He looked down to avoid the despairing eyes of his crew, but found Clef looking up at him. His brimming eyes were full of anguish as he protested, “I wouldena given up, sir. I’d a died f’you.” Brashen let his own weapon fall. He set a hand on the boy’s fair head. “I know. That was what I feared.”
“It doesn’t work that way. Silencing memories does not make them stop existing. Events cannot be undone by forgetting them.”
“Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.”
“You poor, pathetic bastard,” the charm ground out the slow accusing words. “You’ve become Igrot. Do you know that? To defeat the monster, you became the monster.” The tiny voice became even fainter. “You have only yourself to fear now.”
Reyn, if you find a mate, and if you can father children, you will get the next generation of Elderlings.”
A terrible recognition of kinship swept through Malta as the ship hailed her. “Well met and welcome, Dragon-Friend.”
