We Free the Stars

To fear was to live and to strengthen

“Knowing you can lose something is what makes it more precious.”

“I don’t need a man to complete me.”

“No,” Yasmine agreed with a sad smile. “We never do. Your happiness completes you.

“I don’t know him the way you do, but I was there. I saw how he looks at you. If he’s the darkness, then you’re his moon, and the moon wasn’t made to be caged. It’s a beacon to behold, a relic to revere. To be loved.”

“We’re not falling apart. We hunted the flame on Sharr, set free the stars across the skies, but it was only ever the dawn of our zumra. Now we make sure that light doesn’t go out. Forever. Together.”

But one wrong didn’t justify another.

No one walks into battle expecting to die, Huntress

“The heart cannot forget the one who lives in her soul.”

“Every leader has a healthy dose of blood on their hands.”

She had always marveled at the endless ways in which people met one another halfway. The offering of peace was as near as they’d go to an apology, she knew, for when people were close they rarely needed to use words