"I can barely hear him, mesmerized as I am by Annie's hand in mine.
How long has it been since Annie touched me like this? Surely it was never like this, her fingers twining with mine as though she wanted to feel every line and burn scar with the tips of her fingers, a blush creeping up her cheeks as if she feels my gaze on her and it brings heat to her skin-
Could it possibly be this easy, this simple?"
-Lee
"Thousands died in poverty and starvation under the triarchy. The dragonborn feasted while their people starved and denied the famines they found inconvenient. They operated with almost no legal restraints, cruelly and without mercy, and then they justified the wrongs they committed by claiming it was their blood-borne right."
Fireborne (The Aurelian Cycle #1) by Rosaria Munda