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" Also, if Briar had a kid, it would basically be my kid, too... I don’t mean that in some like…nuclear family, heterosexual, we’re-registered-at-Hobby-Lobby kind of way. I just mean, you know, Briar is my family, and our family is whatever we decide it is. "
― H.E. Edgmon , The Fae Keeper (The Witch King, #2)
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" I am Faery, and Faery is me. It is how I knew you the moment you stepped through from Lacuna. You became a part of me, as you were always meant to be. But I do not exist beyond this place, and I cannot go with you. Could I, I would have done so a thousand times over. Instead, in the morning, I will ask the citizens of Ra’Ora who is willing to stand beside you and aid in ushering in a new era. An era where the door between worlds may stand open, where my children may come and go freely, as they wish. And an era in which they are safe, wherever they are, whoever they are. "
― H.E. Edgmon , The Fae Keeper (The Witch King, #2)
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" If it’s not about genetics, what is the bond?” Solomon asks, stepping forward with his forehead wrinkled in thought.
“This sacred fellowship exists between two people who are one another’s perfect mirrors. A reflection of all they are, and all they hope to be. These unions allow both parties to grow to their fullest potential. It is a beautiful and sacred thing. [...] To equate them to romantic unions, or parental partnerships, would be to diminish their value. Certainly, they can become these things, but it is not inherent to what they are. […] Should a person turn from their mirror, they will never know themself for who they truly are. Should they do the unthinkable and shatter their mirror, they will be doomed to become the most warped and broken version of themself. "
― H.E. Edgmon , The Fae Keeper (The Witch King, #2)
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" Do you…do you know how long I’ll have?” Emyr asks here, and his claws dig into my thigh. I reach down and put my hand over his. I don’t pull his fingers away. “I know that resurrection magic is rarely permanent. My—my mother—”
Vorgaine reaches across the table and lays her hand across the back of Emyr’s. He stills under her touch, and tilts his head up to stare into her eyes.
“I am sorry about your mother, Emyr. That never should have happened.” She shakes her head. “But I can tell you this. Wyatt’s energy is permanently, and inextricably, tangled with yours. For as long as one of you lives, the other cannot die.”
And just like that, with one sentence, a thousand pounds of invisible weight, sitting on my chest for the last few weeks, disappears.
Our world is on fire. Everything we’ve ever known is a lie. We could both die tomorrow.
But Emyr isn’t going anywhere without me. I am not going to lose him.
Never again. "
― H.E. Edgmon , The Fae Keeper (The Witch King, #2)
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" Shouting breaks out all around us, confusing overcoming the crowd. I feel Emyr’s fingers snatch the back of my shirt and start dragging me away.
He doesn’t speak, and I can’t see him, and it would be a great time for someone else to grab me and yoink me off to die. But I know Emyr in the warmth of his palm, and I know him in the way his claws press into my skin through fabric, and I know him in the unseeable but no less possessive press of his energy against mine. Without sight, through distance and time, even beyond death, Emyr and I reach for each other. I would recognize him anywhere. "
― H.E. Edgmon , The Fae Keeper (The Witch King, #2)