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Because it reminds him of what he truly is.”

How could I rest while they were hurting?

If you desired someone, if he comforted you, if you thought he might leech the poison out of your heart, was that love? Or only desperation?

“I wasn’t born to be saved.”

I can’t leave anyone to the darkness

knowing the truth is not always a kindness.”

men become stupid when they have a chance to get everything they want.

“And I want you to say that you love me again

Ignifex knew me. And loved me. And he had never asked me for anything. Even Shade wanted me to die for him. Maybe I shouldn’t forgive a monster just because he loved me that way—but—

But loving me that way made him a monster. My doom was the price of saving Arcadia, and only a monster would care more about me than saving thousands upon thousands of innocents.

“I won’t let him hurt you,” he said quietly.

“I hate you,” I said through my teeth.