She shouldn’t be calmed. She’s right to be furious.
I am furious.
And I’m going to act.
Yes, the voice says, giddy. Yes. Act! Make them suffer!
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and mutilate flesh with a snap of their fingers.
Their fear of us is not entirely unjustified.
And I feel that now more than I ever have. It would be so very, very easy to destroy them all.
But I would destroy myself in the process
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I’m cursed if I didn’t know the truth.
It isn’t a curse.
It’s me.
My own actions have come to demand reparation. My own past has come to poison my future
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I need to expel this fury, because if I don’t, I’ll realize it isn’t fury at all.
It’s fear
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What in the hell am I thinking, smiling at the thought of that uncouth witch plotting my murder? But her rage is so… It’s like a storm at night, full of lightning, beautiful in its fury.
No. No. Where did that thought come from?
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But he still says nothing, just stares at me in a long, weighted silence, and I know, in the clenched set of his jaw and the steadiness in his eyes, that he won’t break.
I thought I knew stubborn.
I thought I was stubborn.
This man makes it a religion
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Normalcy has a way of breeding acceptance—when darkness is all people know, they forget to ask for the light.”
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“God be with you,” the priest says in German, not Latin.
If He is with me, He is against you, I think.
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I realize then that I hadn’t thought I’d see him again. And I’d been terrified by that idea.
Which is just maddeningly annoying.
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And he has carried the weight of his own grief every moment since we met, but he looks at me like the world has gone silent. If I can be that for him, bring an end to his internal war, then I will, I will, I—
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