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What was it she’d once said to him?

You have so ht, small

Human

Beautiful

But small

He’d liked that in his woman, a small lovely ambition Given that she didn’t have his talents, he could see that was enough for her

He, however, had from the very first moments of his existence teemed with power, bristled electric, exploded with it He was a supernova Creating was his drug, addictive and irresistible All-consu

He’d believed mere eether worlds and watching thehtcivilizations and birthing stars, building his Court of Shadows

He’d been wrong

When he’d found her on that tiny provincial planet in that tiny three-di from her flatland existence

Life was so simple It always had been

Be the conductor, forever re

The Unseelie King turned his face in a general upward direction where if there were so for the chance to go a long distance out of the way to return a short distance correctly, it ht overhear and take up the reins, as he did what he should have done a sood

Human

Small

Beautiful

He said, "I quit"

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