#dragonriver

Perhaps there’s some truth to the idea that the real danger of blood magic isn’t that it draws its power from sacrifice, or that it tempts the greedy and ambitious into using the suffering of others to fuel their spells. Perhaps the danger is simply that we do not understand it, and that lack of understanding invites disaster even when our intentions are pure.

Cole: It hurts too much, I can't be me, have to be someone who never killed.

If only you knew how confounding you are, how impossibly infuriating.

Running out the stables, jumping over retention walls, dashing up the stairs, over the debris of the main hall, up, up, up to the library, flicking open the DA Wiki and checking three damn times to make sure I don't end up with yet another broken romance.

Despite appearances, we care. Deeply. About everything. We have no reserve, not in war and not in love.