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"You haven’t spoken with Death?" Circe asked

I shookto ht choose him is because there’s no choice I wonder if he wasn’t born to suffer"

Cursed to want h my memories of him were sporadic, Aric and the beautiful Circe reht not be able to touch, but what if they feltaffection?

"Look at your eyes go green with jealousy" Jack had said the sa

I wasn’t merely jealous of Circe I was jealous--of ether ht she’d planned to poison him with her kiss: By the tione in the throes, he’ll wonder if it’s not worth it

I wanted to touch him I wanted to send him into the throes Not to hurt him, but because I loved him

He’d told Phyta, "Empress, you were born for me, and I for you One day I will convince you of this"

What if he already had?

Circe laughed "Your glyphs are glowing again, Evie Greene"

"Do you have feelings for his to someone else," she said "I will never love another"

"Really?"

Her eyes were filled with sorrow "Do you think you’re the only one who’s lost so was supposed to have been onDay Zero" The river grew choppy

"Oh, God, Circe, I didn’t know" That day had been fateful for several Arcana in more ways than one

My birthday Sol’s anniversary Circe’s wedding

Her gaze grew distant "After the Flash evaporated the seas, I was trapped inside an aquifer beneath the ocean floor, unable to reach my island home, unable to reach et free Once I found what remained of thee two tears of grief"

"What did you do?" Petals appeared on the surface of the river Without thought, I’d grown roses for her pain, scattering them