Blood of Elves

It’s better to die than to live in the knowledge that you’ve done something that needs forgiveness.

You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.”

You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.”

spotted it by the flash of the diamond.

people, how they miaow

also be told apart

Followed by the sight of that tired, jaded face, those sick eyes which saw everything, cold and calculating, which were unnaturally calm but yet so infused with emotion…

Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself

What about me?” She swallowed with difficulty. “I’m not important. I let you down. I let you down… in everything. I was… I was your mistake. Nothing more.”
“Mistakes,” he said with effort, “are also important to me. I don’t cross them out of my life, or memory. And I never blame others for them. You are important to me, Triss, and always will be. You never let me down. Never. Believe me.”

The wind howled, banged the shutter and swelled the tapestry.