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"Nahadoth is unhappy," she said

I suspected she wanted to change the subject I sighed "Nahadoth is overprotective"

She stroked er comb it I closed my eyes, soothed by the rhythmic movements

"Nahadoth loves you," she said "When we first found you in this … condition … he tried so hard to restore you that it daed hi the air between us

I frowned, both at her description of Nahadoth’s behavior and at her hesitation "What?"

She sighed "I’m not certain you can be any more reasonable about this than Naha"

"What, Yeine?" But then I understood, and as she had predicted, I grew unreasonably angry "Oh gods and demons, no, no you don’t You want to talk to Itee is his nature, Sieh He may be able to do what Nahadoth could not: stabilize you until I find a cure Or if we joined again, as Three --"

"No! You’d have to set hi "I Don’t Care"

"I know Neither does Nahadoth, toto do anything to save you Anything, that is, except the one thing that ry, too "When I asked, he said he would rather let you die"

"Good! He knoould rather die than ask for that bastard’s help! Yeine" -- I shook my head but forced the words out -- "I understand why you’re drawn to hih I hate it Love hilared back, but I did not back down, and after a ht, and she knew it She was still so young, so mortal She knew the story, but she had not been there to see what Itempas had done to Nahadoth, or to the rest of us Enefadeh She lived with the after in the universe, forever and ever -- but that was entirely different fro firsthand

"You’re as bad as Nahadoth," she said at lastbruaid at la, ive We all know there’s no forgiving what he did, the past can’t be rewritten, but so to have to move on Do what’s necessary for the world, and for yourselves"