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“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
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“Even if you hate yourself, I’ll love you for the both of us.”
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She would tell Pipaji and Dulin that they had done well. She would tell Suni, Baji, and Ramsa that she was sorry. She would tell Altan that he was right. She would tell Master Jiang thank you. And she would promise them all that she would make their sacrifice worth it.
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Maybe no one was truly a beast. Maybe that was just how murder became possible. You took away someone’s humanity, and then you killed them.
You don't fix hurts by pretending they never happened. You treat them like infected wounds. You dig deep with a burning knife and gouge out the rotten flesh and then, maybe, you have a chance to heal.
She was a goddess. She was a monster. She’d nearly destroyed this country. And then she‘d given it one last, gasping chance to live.
He knew exactly what choice she’d made and what she’d intended. And that made everything—hating her, loving her, surviving her—so much harder.
He couldn’t move. He could hardly breathe. As he stared down at the tiny body in his arms—so limp and lifeless, so utterly unlike the vicious human hurricane he knew as Fang Runin—all he could do was tremble.
Because Rin and Kitay were bonded in a way that he could never understand, and there was no world where Rin died and Kitay remained alive.
“Come, now.” She linked her fingers around Nezha’s. Closed both his hands around the cold, cold hilt as lightning arced around them, between them. Brought the blade round to the front. “Properly this time.”
They’d wielded unprecedented power, unimaginable and unmatchable power capable of rewriting the script of history. And they’d written themselves out
And what a familiar path it was. It was so obvious now. The world was a dream of the gods, and the gods dreamed in sequences, in symmetry, in patterns. History repeated itself.
It said, Do it.
Take what you want, it said. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you.
Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.
They were alone in the plane of spirit, standing on opposite sides of a great circle, both of them naked and fully revealed. It was all there, laid out between them. All their shared fury, vindictiveness, bloodlust, and guilt. Her cruelty. His complicity. Her desperation. His regret.
“I didn’t think I could, either,” he said. “I thought I couldn’t deny you anything. But I can, I always could, I’d just never really tried.”
“A nation means nothing if it can’t provide for the people in it. Sometimes you’ve got to bend the knee, Rin. Sometimes, at least, you’ve got to pretend.”