Trust is a good way to get oneself killed

He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It had to be. His burning love for her cursed through him until he felt so full he didn’t know whether he would fit through the portal.

Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?

I cannot be other than what I am, and I am the choices of all my days.

And she knew without opening her eyes that it was Daniel. No other body in the universe fit hers so well.

Fear is the only way to greet the devil.

Oh that moment when Daniel thought he’d lost her to Cam’s starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant , he’d given up all hope.