You would crawl like a worm to whatever clinging scrap of solace she would give you. All your slithering, degraded desperation for condolence you would give to your sister Lyctor with a brazen thirst that you would never come back from. She would be your end.
Her quarters held some measure of safety for you, as she warded with the paranoid focus of an escaped murderer, and therebefore half as tightly as you did.
We could save the galaxy. Save the Emperor. Let them talk back home of Ianthe and Harrowhark-let them weep to speak of us. The past is dead, and they're both dead, but you and I are alive.
Good morning, my comrade, my colleague, my ally. I do like your eyes, Harrowhark—like flower petals in a darkened room. And even I can admit that your eyelashes are delicious
''THAT WAS THE CUE?'' your voice sounded humiliatingly high-pitched. ''Harry,'' said Ianthe, thankfully also a trifle strangled, ''when three people start kissing, it is always a cue. A cue to leave.''