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My motives had been pure, as altruistic as I believed possible I hadn’t been thinking about ely detached calm, a serene "Fine, takeout of pure love ood intentions landed le, finally able to draw a single conclusion: They hadn’t

There was so else, some other nuance that tipped the scales in favor of the Sinsar Dubh

I peelthe pearly core, determined to isolate precisely what had been in my mind at the moment I’d o, lay my heart bare and study it

At thethat could even be opened or closed or anything that iood ic, that even if the Book’s power steht reasons, without price

Wait Not exactly

There was soht

Oh, God, I’d still been afraid

I’d been saying I believed in the good ic but in my heart lurked the insidious fear that I would lose control again like I had the day I killed the Gray Woo much worse this time

Hope builds a stairway to Heaven Fear opens an abyss to Hell We stand in front of those two possible apertures at all tih

Was it possible the only thing that had given the Book control over ht: What if the war between us has always been nothing more than a battle of will? And it knows it I’ive it one hell of an advantage over e it needed The corporeal Sinsar Dubh had trafficked in guile and sleight of hand My internal one would be no different Since thebut tales of how all-powerful it was, how its as impossible to resist, and da to reater than the thing

Picture this: Two people are in a rooe?

The sociopath Because it knows it’s a sociopath The e by the saame

There are no rules with a sociopath There’s only--

DESIRE, LUST, GREED, AND THE PATH WE CHOOSE TO SUPREMACY

The words explode in the vacuuht turn this way and that, peering into darkness I can’t see with eyes I don’t have

I just heard the Sinsar Dubh!