it's funny that half the people see you as a witch and the rest see you as an object of worship. funny like how a shipwreck is funny. people are such curious things. it's important for you to be safe, and more important that i feel you're safe. besides, you don't need your guards to provide you with cheer when i already fill that role quite handsomely. i like my progress boisterous and overly extravagant. but zoya will be there to have me tossed in chains if need be. if she doesn't kill me first.
[ another beat, and then — ]
it's not that. sometimes i think you should run off with mal. you certainly wouldn't have to worry about the half of this.
[ he knows it's the wrong thing to say immediately after he says it, but the words are already out, spilling like a river he can't call back. ]
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it's important for you to be safe, and more important that i feel you're safe. besides, you don't need your guards to provide you with cheer when i already fill that role quite handsomely.
i like my progress boisterous and overly extravagant. but zoya will be there to have me tossed in chains if need be. if she doesn't kill me first.
[ another beat, and then — ]
it's not that.
sometimes i think you should run off with mal.
you certainly wouldn't have to worry about the half of this.
[ he knows it's the wrong thing to say immediately after he says it, but the words are already out, spilling like a river he can't call back. ]