You almost died.” “But you brought me back.” She cupped his face in her hands. “I always knew you were there. Death didn't have a chance against the Wall.

She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.

There's not much left inside me, Max" Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.

There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies.” (Raphael)

Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.

Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this was over, she’d either end up in Dmitri’s bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)