Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me.

And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.

Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside.

And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me.

I'm trying to understand. How you could come to love a monster.”“Why?”Her eyes were blazing as she hissed, “Because it will help me understand how I did the same. Is it a sickness?” she demanded, “Is it something broken within you?