Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow.

I’d rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

She couldn’t live in denial of her own humanity.

Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it...

I do not need a scabbard to sheathe my mind.

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.