Liar1 05/05/2024
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There was a certain bird in Seiiki with a call like a babe beginning to wail. To Niclays, it had become a torturous symbol of his life in Orisima. The whimper that never quite turned into a scream. The wait for a blow that never came.
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Susa had risked everything for a dream that was not hers. That sort of friendship was something not found more than once in a lifetime. Some might not find it at all.
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'That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in then cannot be weighed.'
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'I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.'
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Jannart smiled. 'Let us not speak of death when there is still so much life to be lived.'
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'Your determination to make it truth does not mean it is so.'
'It is my truth.'
'Many have died for your truth, Lady Truyde. I trust,' Ead said, 'that you can live with that.'
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'Looks like madness to me.'
'All alchemists have madness in their blood. That, dear lady, is why we get things done.'
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'No. You are another dream. You come here to torment me.' Sabran turned away. 'Leave me in peace.'
'Damn you, intransigent fool.' She almost choked on her laughter. 'I have crossed the South and the West to get back to you, Sabran Berethnet, and you reward me thus?'
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'When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.'
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'Answer me,' Sabran said, voice straining. 'I am your queen.'
'You may be a queen, but you are not my queen. I am not your subject, Sabran.' Ead stepped inside and shut the doors. 'And that is why you can be certain that what was between us was real.'
'Tell me, Eadaz uq-Nãra,' she said softly, 'am I a greater fool to want you still?'
Ead crossed the space between them. 'No more a fool than I,' she said, 'to love you as I do.'
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'I am not your queen,' Sabran whispered over her skin, 'but I am yours.'
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'Just because something has always been done does not mean that it ought to be done.'
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And he realised. He wanted to feel the sun on his face. He wanted to read books and walk through the cobbled streets of Brygstad. He wanted to listen to music, to visit museums and art galleries and theatres, to marvel at the beauty of human creation. He wanted to travel to the South and the North and drink in all they had to offer. He wanted to laugh again. He wanted to live.
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'Perhaps you should ask yourself a different question, honoured Miduchi,' he said. 'Would the world be any better if we were all the same?'
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To be kin to a dragon,' Nayimathun said, 'you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. It's depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon's heart.'
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'There is great risk for us all, I know. But what ruler made history by avoiding it?'
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All his life, he had intended to find a companion. Now he wondered if he was fortunate to have never fallen in love.
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'Without me, you will have nothing to unite you. You will fall to wars of wealth and religion. You will make enemies of each other. As you always have. And you will end yourselves.'
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'I thought of dying. I watched the sea burning. Light from darkness. Fire and stars. I looked into the Abyss, and I almost let myself fall. And then I stepped back. Too heartsore to live, too craven to die. But then... you sent me on that journey for a reason. The only way I could think to honour you was by continuing to live. I will teach my heart to beat again.'