QUOTE : You cannot have my pain.”<br /><br />“Dalinar—”<br /><br />Dalinar forced himself to his feet. “You. Cannot. Have. My. Pain.”<br /><br />“Be sensible.”<br /><br />“I killed those children,” Dalinar said.<br /><br />“No, it—”<br /><br />“I burned the people of Rathalas.”<br /><br />“I was there, influencing you—”<br /><br />“YOU CANNOT HAVE MY PAIN!” Dalinar bellowed, stepping toward Odium. The god frowned. His Fused companions shied back, and Amaram raised a hand before his eyes and squinted.<br /><br />Were those gloryspren spinning around Dalinar?<br /><br />“I did kill the people of Rathalas,” Dalinar shouted. “You might have been there, but I made the choice. I decided!” He stilled. “I killed her. It hurts so much, but I did it. I accept that. You cannot have her. You cannot take her from me again.”<br /><br />“Dalinar,” Odium said. “What do you hope to gain, keeping this burden?”<br /><br />Dalinar sneered at the god. “If I pretend … If I pretend I didn’t do those things, it means that I can’t have grown to become someone else.”<br /><br />“A failure.”<br /><br />Something stirred inside of Dalinar. A warmth that he had known once before. A warm, calming light.<br /><br />Unite them.<br /><br />“Journey before destination,” Dalinar said. “It cannot be a journey if it doesn’t have a beginning.”<br /><br />A thunderclap sounded in his mind. Suddenly, awareness poured back into him. The Stormfather, distant, feeling frightened—but also surprised.<br /><br />Dalinar?<br /><br />“I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.