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I never had the courage of my convictions / As long as danger is near / And it's just around the corner, darling / Cause it lives in me / he nodded to her right forearm, not trusting himself to speak. his gloved lay on the other side of the basin, black against the gold-veined marble. they looked like dead animals. he focused on the shears, cold metal in his hands, nothing like skin. he could not do this if his hands were shaking. i can best this, he told himself. it was no different than drawing a weapon on someone. violence was easy.

No, I could never give you peace / “If it were a trick, I'd promise you safety. I'd offer you happiness. I don't know if that exists in the Barrel, but you'll find none of it with me."

But I'm a fire, and I'll keep your brittle heart warm / Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain.The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent. The boy beside her. The future before her. Anything was possible. / She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have.

If your cascade ocean wave blues come / “and what’s your [tell]?” kaz thought of the moment on vellgeluk that had nearly cost him everything.

All these people think love's for show / But I would die for you in secret / She smiled then, her eyes red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again

The devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me / Would it be enough if I could never give you peace? / so he wasn’t fit for a normal life. was she meant to find a kindhearted husband, have his children, then sharpen her knives after they’d gone to sleep? how would she explain the nightmares she still had from the Menagerie? or the blood on her hands?

Your integrity makes me seem small / it hurt to stand here like this, so close to the circle of her arms. it isn’t easy for me either. after all she had endured, he was the weak one

I talk shit with my friends / It's like I'm wasting your honor / “i’m a very valuable investment.” “tell me he didn’t say that?” “of course he did. well, not the valuable part.” “idiot.”

And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences / Sit with you in the trenches / i would come for you, and if i couldn’t walk, i’d crawl to you. and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together - knives drawn, pistols blazing. because that’s what we do. we never stop fighting.

Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other / He had carried her, fought beside her, spent whole nights next to her, both of them on their bellies, peering through a long glass, watching some warehouse or merch’s mansion.

Family that I chose, now that I see your brother as my brother / crows remember human faces.  they remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them.

But there's robbers to the east, clowns to the west / I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best / “brick by brick,” he said. then he gave a single shake of his head, as if shrugging off the notion. “i wasn’t made to be a hero, Wraith. you should have learned that by now. you want me to be the better man, a good man.”

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