If I suffer, you suffer
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mme_hardyTwo more quotes from A Conspiracy of Whispers.
First, from the climactic showdown. Wallis is the spymaster who sent Olivia to what was supposed to be her death. Our hero Galen speaks first.
"You know the root word for altus, don't you?"
"Of course. Feed. Altered to be mindless predators," Wallis scoffed. You couldn't even get that right."
"That might be the Syn interpretation." Galen dryly realized how all of Olivia's prejudices had formed. He shook his head. "The root could be feed, or it could be fodder, those to be thrown to a cause. Antiquated, perhaps, but the root word for caricae is treasure."
Elsewhere, Galen and Olivia's first kiss.
And oh, after it all, how she needed to be kissed like this. A kiss like a wall, stopping her thoughts. A kiss like a wolf, snapping up her breath. A kiss like stone, anchoring her in. A kiss like sunlight, chasing shadows and warming places so long in the cold.
First, from the climactic showdown. Wallis is the spymaster who sent Olivia to what was supposed to be her death. Our hero Galen speaks first.
"You know the root word for altus, don't you?"
"Of course. Feed. Altered to be mindless predators," Wallis scoffed. You couldn't even get that right."
"That might be the Syn interpretation." Galen dryly realized how all of Olivia's prejudices had formed. He shook his head. "The root could be feed, or it could be fodder, those to be thrown to a cause. Antiquated, perhaps, but the root word for caricae is treasure."
Elsewhere, Galen and Olivia's first kiss.
And oh, after it all, how she needed to be kissed like this. A kiss like a wall, stopping her thoughts. A kiss like a wolf, snapping up her breath. A kiss like stone, anchoring her in. A kiss like sunlight, chasing shadows and warming places so long in the cold.
