supression

You can__ hold it in forever,_ Colton said, apropos of nothing. __es, I can._ I had to. __ou__l go crazy. It__l come out, one way or another._ __etter crazy than broken._ I wasn't sure where that came from, hadn't thought it or meant to say it. __ou__e not broken. You__e hurting.

The teachings of the Mage Guild were that none of these others was real, no one else and nothing anywhere was real, that everything around him was merely a shadow born of Alain's own illusions. He had accepted that wisdom__ntil he had met Mari. In a world where nothing was allowed to change, Alain had been changed.He could let himself feel emotions again. He had learned what it meant to help someone else. He had learned what a friend was. He had forgotten what love was. Until he had fallen in love.