Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.

And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

Don’t you have dragons to fight so that you started saving girls who don’t need it?

Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –