She'd hurt him, but she'd attempted everything in her power to make things right. She'd shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone he'd ever known.

You are strong enough to survive the fall

Matthias joined them at the table. “The Shu woman we faced was stronger than me, Jesper, and Wylan put together.”“You heard right,” said Jesper. “Stronger than Wylan.

He had been strong for his country, his soldiers, his friends. It meant something different to be strong for her.

Even now, a boy will smile at me on the street, or Jesper will put his arm around my waist, and I feel like I’m going to vanish. I live in fear that I’ll see one of her—one of my—clients on the street. For a long time, I thought I recognized them everywhere. But sometimes I think what they did to me wasn’t the worst of it.

Jer molle pe poner. Enel mordió je nej afval trohem verretn."I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.