Isn't is lovely to be all together again?" Raffin said, throwing one arm around Po and the other around Bann. -------- She wanted them near, even if they were subsumed by their own affairs, she needed them at sword practice in the morning, at dinner at night, moving and shifting around her, there and gone, back again, arguing, teasing, acting like people who knew who they were.
Kristin CashoreAnd you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.
Kristin CashoreIโm as old as both of you,โ she said, even though she suspected she wasnโt, โand Iโm smarter, and I can probably fight as well as you can.
Kristin CashoreShe couldn't steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again - belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person.
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