what Delilah thinking about

“Because Aelin will burn them to ash?” Hasar asked with poisoned sweetness.

On the breezes of the sky,

And you ask "What if I fall?"

Oh but my darling, “What if you fly?”

Elio : I know nothing, Oliver.

Oliver : Well, you seem to know more than anyone else around here.

— Radiohead

“What?” I can barely think.

“That you hate me,” he says, his voice hoarse. “Tell me that you hate me.”

“I hate you,” I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. “I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.”

He kisses me harder.

“I hate you,” I breathe into his mouth. “I hate you so much that sometimes I can’t think of anything else.”

"All right," I said. The tears came harder. There will be nothing left.

He shuddered. His eyelids drooped.

"Once more," he said. "Speak my name once more."

He was ancient, I knew that. But in this moment he was just a boy- brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.

"Aleksander."

His eyes fluttered shut. "Don't let me be alone," he murmured. And then he was gone.

– Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy), Leigh Bardugo

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