Emily, there are enemies everywhere. We have to be on our guard, especially for the next couple of weeks._ Theo sighed unhappily. __his is going to be the longest fortnight of my life._ __hat__ saying something,_ I joked, __iven how long you__e lived._ __xactly,_ he said, without smiling.
She had seen the almost-human Orona, who was orphaned and alone in the world, a woman whom Cain had plucked off the streets and fallen in love with. What she didn__ see was the undead creature Cain barely knew, the foolish human girl who fell in love with the caretaker of the seas. She hadn__ seen me stand up against a hurricane or keep a cave from crushing two lovers to death. She hadn__ seen me throw myself over the ones who would have turned to ashes when the volcano erupted, or made water appear from the sands to the dying in the desert. She did not know I was both savior and destroyer to so many souls.
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She had seen the almost-human Orona, who was orphaned and alone in the world, a woman whom Cain had plucked off the streets and fallen in love with. What she didn__ see was the undead creature Cain barely knew, the foolish human girl who fell in love with the caretaker of the seas. She hadn__ seen me stand up against a hurricane or keep a cave from crushing two lovers to death. She hadn__ seen me throw myself over the ones who would have turned to ashes when the volcano erupted, or made water appear from the sands to the dying in the desert. She did not know I was both savior and destroyer to so many souls.
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