|
December 09, 2023 23:10
|
Epilogue: North
|
97.7%
|
#FFE0EC
|
“Magic, then.”
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 23:06
|
Thirty-Five: Nimh
|
95.0%
|
#FFE0EC
|
This is my destiny, my reason for being. I am my people’s goddess, and I am finally what they have always needed me to be. For the first time in my life I am content—I am enough.
And I must give it all up.
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 23:06
|
Thirty-Five: Nimh
|
94.7%
|
#FFE0EC
|
Our spirits are still tethered, both of us, to the two halves of our world’s broken heart. I
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 23:01
|
Thirty-Five: Nimh
|
93.6%
|
#FFE0EC
|
I realize I can’t bear to know what he sounds like, with the depth of his love and faith twisted to Inshara’s purposes
|
:(
|
|
December 09, 2023 23:01
|
Thirty-Four: North
|
93.3%
|
#FFE0EC
|
I close her fingers around the protection stone, and I let go
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 20:19
|
Thirty-Two: North
|
90.4%
|
#FFE0EC
|
“Take the knife, young prince, for he is the reason your glider fell.”
|
I wondered
|
|
December 09, 2023 20:17
|
Thirty-One: Nimh
|
88.7%
|
#FFE0EC
|
“As soon as we forget where we came from, we start losing track of where we should be trying to go.”
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 20:16
|
Thirty-One: Nimh
|
88.3%
|
#FFB
|
“THE THIRD PLANET IN THE SOL SYSTEM, LOCATED APPROXIMATELY TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND ELEVEN LIGHT-YEARS AWAY. ONE OF SEVERAL PLANETS KNOWN TO HAVE DEVELOPED LIFE. ORIGIN POINT OF HUMAN SPECIES. ATMOSPHERE CONSISTS OF APPROXIMATELY SEVENTY-EIGHT PERCENT—”
|
Was??
|
|
December 09, 2023 20:10
|
Twenty-Eight: North
|
83.1%
|
#FFE0EC
|
“We know you love us,” she says softly. “Go be in love with her, and do it with your whole, huge heart. Got it?”
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 17:21
|
Twenty-One: Nimh
|
66.8%
|
#FFE0EC
|
It would make no difference, my heart begs me to say. I would love you if we were not a prince and a goddess; if we were farmers on the smallest of the sky-islands; if we were riverstriders fishing for our suppers. I would love you if I was nothing.
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 17:21
|
Twenty-One: Nimh
|
66.7%
|
#FFE0EC
|
“What if that connection is what we feel when we are together?”
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 17:10
|
Nineteen: Nimh
|
61.3%
|
#FFE0EC
|
I stare at the man, whose features are a haunting mix of familiarity and strangeness; the features of someone I know well, but changed somehow, different.
|
North’s dad
|
|
December 09, 2023 17:03
|
Seventeen: Nimh
|
56.0%
|
#FFE0EC
|
“If I was going to break that most sacred law for anyone in this world or the other . . . I wanted it to be you.”
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 16:48
|
Thirteen: Nimh
|
44.0%
|
#FFE0EC
|
There is no fate, no prophecy, no pantheon of gods that could ever demand such a thing of anyone: to submit to death rather than be touched. To meet the other half of one’s heart and never feel his kiss. To be promised divinity that transcends humanity, but only for one who lives her life as something less than human.
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 16:47
|
Twelve: North
|
43.2%
|
#FFE0EC
|
And all I can do is watch as they fall.
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 16:47
|
Eleven: Nimh
|
42.8%
|
#FFE0EC
|
The train is falling from the sky
|
Ummm..
|
|
December 09, 2023 16:20
|
Eight: North
|
26.6%
|
#FFE0EC
|
Oh. Someone threw him in there. No wonder he has trust issues.
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 16:15
|
Seven: Nimh
|
24.8%
|
#FFE0EC
|
“Skyfall, she speaks just like . . . just like . . .”
|
He’s gotta be Insharas dad too
|
|
December 09, 2023 16:13
|
Seven: Nimh
|
24.0%
|
#FFE0EC
|
I am just his destiny. Not his heart.
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 14:23
|
Four: North
|
14.3%
|
#FFE0EC
|
You must choose which stones to carry, for if you try to carry them all, you will be dragged down by their weight and drown in the depths. But you may find that as you swim, you grow stronger for the stones in your pockets. You may find you can carry more than you knew
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 14:16
|
Three: Jayn
|
10.5%
|
#FFB
|
Or someone worth guarding
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 05:10
|
Two: North
|
8.2%
|
#FFB
|
It’s a sacrilege, my things in this space, turning something beautiful and quiet into a reflection of the chaos of my own world—my own mind.
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 05:07
|
Two: North
|
6.4%
|
#FFE0EC
|
“We live in an endless cycle. All that has happened will happen again—all that is happening now has already come before. Our world exists in a neverending chain of creation and destruction, joy and suffering, life and death. This incarnation of the world should have been ended a thousand years ago, but the Lightbringer, the god destined to bring about the end, could not bring himself to do it.”
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 05:04
|
One: Jayn
|
4.9%
|
#FFB
|
I can never be one of them, for this is not my home.
I come from another world.
|
|
|
December 09, 2023 05:02
|
One: Jayn
|
3.0%
|
#FFB
|
“You do not wish to attend the coronation today?”
|
The coronation of who…
|
|
December 09, 2023 05:01
|
The Maid
|
2.3%
|
#FFB
|
“This is fate, a thousand years in the making. This is my destiny.”
|
That’s definitely Inshara
|