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The ghost of Teren’s words co once again in the Inquisition Tower, staring up into his ice-colored eyes You are an abouilt is to atone for it by saving your fellow abominations We are not supposed to exist, Adelina We were never meant to be And suddenly, I knohy Raffaele needs my help I know it before he can say it

"You need my help to close the breach between our worlds"

"Everything is connected," Raffaele says, a phrase that Enzo once said to me when he was alive "We are connected to the point where Laetes fell, where ione wrong, we need to seal the place that birthed us, with the alignive back our powers

"We are the children of the gods," Raffaele finishes, confir my fear "Only we can enter the immortal realm as mortals"

"And if I refuse?" I reply

Raffaele’s quiet nature has always both calmed and unnerved me He lowers his eyes "If you don’t," he replies, "then in a matter of a few years, the poison of the i"

I look back down at ht of her powers Lucent’s hollowing bones Sergio’s eternal thirst and exhaustion Teren’s never-healing wounds And ht, chittering, chittering

"No," I say The voices hiss atnow and cli out of their caves

Raffaele watchesout of tilare at him "And what makes you think I care if she dies?"

"You still love her I can sense it in you"

"You always think you know everything"

"Well? Don’t you?"

"No"