I have one of those faces, I fear. Le visage de beaucoup, le visage d’aucun. The face always seen—”
“—the face never remembered,” I finished the old adage by rote.
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Nicholina. Her memories. They slip across the surface of the shadows, as slick and bright as oil in water, mingling with my own. Snippets of a lullaby here. Ginger hair and warm hands there, a clandestine smile and an echo of laughter—genuine laughter, not the eerie, artificial kind she uses now. Warmth envelops that particular memory, and I realize it isn’t her laughter at all. It comes from another, someone she once held dear. A sister? A mother? Pale skin, freckled flesh. Ah . . . a lover.
"Did he not hear our prayer?”
Zenna arched a brow. “Your arrogance astounds.”
“It’s hardly arrogant to expect the help of a friend—”
“He is not your friend. He is a god. If you speak to him, he will listen. He will not, however,” she added firmly, eyes narrowing, “always answer.