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"Maybe you were always going to turn out this way, no matter how I tried to save you.”

"How can we be looking at the same futures,” she asked, “and see them so differently?”

A small shifting of the world, rearranging other dragons to make your life a bit easier, telling yourself it was harmless, for the best, even. But once you took a step down that path, once you let yourself think manipulating someone else was all right … when every new turn seemed right to you, seemed justified, no matter how far you went … Where would it ever stop?

But was it worth protecting someone on the outside, if doing so made
yourself more dangerous on the inside?

She’d thought putting
his magic in the scroll would protect him — but if he wasn’t worried about
his soul, did that mean there was nothing to hold him back?

The librarian had given Clearsight a study room of her own, although she suspected that was because he thought she was insane and he wanted the option to lock her in if necessary.