She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because Cammon could read souls, but Tayse was the only one she would tell.

She shouldn't leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That's what love's like.

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.