The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.

Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.

Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?

I don't know. This college would probably have the same problem the last one did." I frowned. "What's that?" "Homework." "Adrian," growled his father. "It's okay," said Adrian breezily. He rested his arm casually on the table. "I don't really need a job or extra money. After Rose and I get married, the kids and I'll just live off of her guardian paycheck.

Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.

Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together.

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth