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”Why can’t I remember what happened next?
You are remembering.
No, why can’t I remember it now? As I talk through it, it comes back to me, but only then. Without that there’s an empty space. A great dark hole.
You are remembering.”

”Then, on impulse, I stepped forward and wrapped my arms around her and held her tight, as I had never dared to do before in my whole life. She held stiff against me for a moment, surprised, but then sighed and rested her hands on my back.”

yes yes they can’t take the soul out yet, and then we’ll see if they merge or the girl becomes the goddess, not my first rodeo

oh yeah ofc she has her soul

hmmmmmmm

”But in the morning I would recall something - a taste in the air, as Sieh had termed it. That taste was something I had little experience with, yet I knew it the way an infant knows love, or an animal knows fear. Jealousy, even between father and son, is a fact of nature.”
nope. why do you do this to me. nope

”He was a silhouette. All that happens in darkness, I see, he said. Every whisper, every sigh, I hear. Even if I leave, some part of me will remain. That cannot be helped.”
ngl that sounds like a bad deal

”We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
Still I could not help drinking in the view. It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.”

”’I will laugh when youre dead,’ he said softly. The small hairs along my skin prickled, for his voice was a grown mans now, tenor malevolence. ‘I will claim your heart as a toy and kick it for a hundred years. And when I am finally free, I will hunt down all your descendants and make their children just like me.’”
oop

”They are bound by Bright Itempas to serve the descendants of Shahar Arameri, His greatest priestess. But since Shahars descendants now number in the thousands He gestured toward the windows, as if the whole world was one clan. Or perhaps he simply meant Sky, the only world that mattered to him. Our ancestors chose to impose a more orderly structure on the situation.