Tower of Dawn

“It’s nothing worth telling.” His story wasn’t worth telling at all. Not a single part of it.

It broke her, and unmade her, and rebirthed her.

He had been so afraid—so afraid of magic, of loss, of everything. And that fear … it had driven him to it anyway. It had hurried him down this path. He had clung so hard, had fought against it, and it had cost him everything. Too late. He’d been too late to see clearly.