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“Oh, fire dancer”—Alōs smiled down at her—“don’t you know by now? You are the adventure.”

“I’m always look for you, fire dancer,” he said. (…) “And when I sleep, that’s when I search the hardest and where, most nights, I find you.”

“Her father was trusting her to go, to burn as bright as she needed, as hot as he knew she could, because in the end, she would always find her way—home.”

“Death is better than goodbyes,” said Bree, pouting on Niya’s other side.
Niya turned to her with raised brows. “And how’s that?”
“At least when the Fade takes you,” explained Bree, “you have no choice but to go.”

“It is the strongest of souls who are brave enough to bare emotions.”

“It took just as much brutality to slay monsters as it did to be one.”

“You make me many things, fire dancer. Happy is merely one.”

“No,” said Alōs, his gaze consuming her, “even when you’re gone, fire dancer, I will never be free of you.”

“Alōs was Niya’s ultimate foolishness. She had given him another chance to stand in the center of her life. And he’d proved worthy by choosing instead to stand at her side.”

“Alōs realized then just how much he had been wrung dry by life’s disappointments, for a part of him was not surprised. A numb acceptance.”

“I am not a prize won by simple favors.”

“And I like women, Red.”
Niya blinked over to the quartermaster. “So?” she said. “I like women too.”

IT HAPPENED. IT FINALLY HAPPENED. I CAN CHECK THIS OFF MY BUCKET LIST.

I was willing to assume that portal token was off the table (even tho Niya would only have to ask Achak for one)… but y’all mean to tell me they had one on the ship this whole time

“How do you know it’s a he?”
Niya shrugged. “He feels lazy.”
Alōs gave her a dry glance. “Nice.”