QUOTE : When you’ve tired of me,” she said softly, precisely, “Apollo will still be my brother. Will still be there for me.”<br /><br />“I’ll never tire of you,” he said, knowing with every thread of his soul that he spoke the absolute truth.<br /><br />“Then prove it.”<br /><br />He knew what she asked with such an open and vulnerable face. Something within him shriveled and died... he’d been on the rack too long for a penance he wasn’t sure he could ever entirely pay. <br /><br />“You know…” His voice was hoarse, the croaking of a dying man. He licked his lips. “You know why I cannot.