“We’ll keep you safe-- I’ll keep you safe.” Kiernan pushed himself up off the bed and came to sit next to me. “Come on,” he said, reaching out a tentative arm and putting it around my shoulders. “I just got… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“You aren’t going to die,” Kiernan whispered through the darkness. We sat in one of the bedchambers for pilgrims, me on the cot and Kiernan on the floor. He was sitting with his knees bent, elbows resting on them. If… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“You really told them you wanted to marry me?” I asked. The smile had taken over his whole face now. “I told you before:… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“I turned the page, but there was no more about the princess. Instead, it went on to an account of a merchant’s wife and… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“You can’t be just a scribe, or a wizard. Nameless God,” he cried, raking a hand through his hair. “I wish they had never… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“It had been different when I was the princess. Then I had looked at his flirtations with other girls and at least told myself… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“If I thought being kissed by Tyr had been what kissing was all about, I had been wrong. This kiss trampled Tyr's kiss, threw… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“I had worried that he might think of me differently, once he learned about my new powers. That the thought of being accidentally roasted… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“He wouldn’t have forgotten. It might be too much the fear of losing me so much that he had withdrawn his heart to protect… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“I love you, Sinda,” he said, not shakily but with certainty. “I have for--oh, years--before I even knew that I did. I loved you… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
“The day they came to tell me, I was in one of the gardens with Kiernan, trying to decipher a three-hundred-year-old map of the… — Eilis O'Neal Copy Share Image
