#aefe

Therefore, even joy, even ecstasy, even transcendence, perhaps even salvation, when a human could not understand, interpret, and accept them, were all suffering. (...) Tæ finally met the being who had given meaning and purpose to his life for his entire life, but that being left, and Tæ remained. Therefore, Tæ cried. Tæ cried because he was still seeking meaning by depending on that being.

I love Max and Tisaanah to death, they were both fantastic and I'd read a dozen books with them just living peacfully and happily like they deserved.

But Aefe and Caduan broke my heart completely. Their story was such a gut punch to me. It genuinely takes talent for me to be crying over someone who should be, and is in a way, a villain.

It's like imhotep and anck su namun from The Mummy, but intensified and she went back for him like she should have in the end.

"The vengeance is for you."

Aefe deserved so much better. She deserved a whole full life and to be loved and she was robbed of it so many times and I'm still sobbing over their ending. The writing was beautiful and had me crying on a sunny sunday afternoon.

"Five hundred years is a very long time. One hundred and eighty thousand days, and I thought of you in every one"

He was quiet for such a long time that I thought perhaps he hadn’t heard me.

“Five hundred years is a very long time,” he said, at last. “One hundred and eighty thousand days, and I thought of you in every one.”