No one has allowed me peace or rest before. Why should it be different now?
( perhaps it was always meant to be this way, she thinks, macabre. what saint has ever managed to escape their grim fate? not alina, now. she'd been a fool to think it were easy as sweeping away the silk of a spiderwebs, to forget the sticky trap of destiny. )
Thank you. For trying. It's more than most would do.
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Why should it be different now?
( perhaps it was always meant to be this way, she thinks, macabre. what saint has ever managed to escape their grim fate? not alina, now. she'd been a fool to think it were easy as sweeping away the silk of a spiderwebs, to forget the sticky trap of destiny. )
Thank you. For trying.
It's more than most would do.