fireheart

“it was like dying a little every day. it was like being alive, too. it was a joy so complete it was pain. it destroyed me and unmade me and forged me. i hated it, because i knew i couldn’t escape it, and knew it would forever change me. and that witchling … i loved her, too. i loved her in a way i cannot describe–other than to tell you that it was the most powerful thing i’ve ever felt, greater than rage, than lust, than magic.”