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41 " Kam,” Kiaran says, his eyes never leaving Derrick. “Control your pixie.” “Control me?” A wee blade is suddenly in Derrick’s hand. “I’m going to gut you, you sonofa— "
― Elizabeth May , The Vanishing Throne (The Falconer, #2)
42 " Should I menace someone? "
43 " I promised Gavin I’d be down a half hour ago.” I lean toward him and whisper. “Come get me in fifteen minutes just in case I need to be saved.”“From whom?” Derrick flicks his wings. “Don’t tell me you’re already fighting with Kiaran after you and he had—”“For god’s sake.” I glare at him. “Not Kiaran. Daniel. Or possibly Catherine. I still haven’t told her we’re leaving yet.”Derrick sputters a laugh. “You haven’t . . . ? Oh, I can’t wait to see that.”I glare at him. “Fifteen minutes.”“Thirty. I plan to eat everything on the food tables.”“You can eat them in ten. I’ll give you twenty-five, just in case you need to go outside and vomit it all up.”He looks satisfied with that. “Deal. "
44 " I know from experience the lies we tell to comfort ourselves, to comfort others, so others never realize how broken we really are. "
45 " The truth is, memories weigh a great deal. Each one bends your bones a little more until the heft of them wears you down. Now I know that some scars go so deep they never fade. "
46 " We needed you, and you weren't there. "
47 " Too many sad memories there anyway." "And happy ones," I point out thinking of his tapestries. "You know perfectly well how tainted those can become," he says quietly. "
48 " The fae stop fighting as Kiaran sinks to the ground with a scream that cuts to my very soul. "
49 " Der Tod ist ihre Bürde.Wo auch immer sie hingeht, er folgt ihr.Ich bin das Mädchen, dessen Gabe das Chaos ist. "