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“You were meant to be there with me and Dann when the time came. We were meant to be brothers! Where were you?”

“I will deal with them. What say you?”“I will stand by your side until my lungs take their last breath and my heart ceases to beat. In darkness, and in light, by blade and by blood, I am yours. Let me be your sword.”

“You are nothing but a child who was told he could be a hero.”

“Kallinvar left him to feel his pain, to grieve. He had felt that pain before. There was no other thing in the world that compared to it. To lose the other half of you was to have the skin peeled from your living bones, to have your heart pulled from your chest and your eyes burned out.”

“Just as it was at The Fall. The Shadow does not shy away from twisting the minds of men. It uses our absence to its advantage. We need to—”

“You know nothing of The Fall,” one of the captains cried.”

“All I care about is that you are back. You are back, aren’t you?”A tear burned at the corner of Dayne’s eye. “There is nothing but death that will ever take me away again.”Dayne brought his hand up to his face, wrapping his fingers around Mera’s.”

“Draleid n’aldryr, Valerys. Myia nithír til diar.” My soul to yours.”

Draleid n’aldryr, Rakina nai dauva. Dragonbound by fire, Broken by death.