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Morgase looked up, staring ahead through the trees It wasn’t really a forest "They say you were as single-minded as Goldeneyes," she said softly "That you would not rest, that you barely took ti for a way to free

"I’ve never had a ail saw me as a pawn, Thom as a beauty to be hunted and romanced, and Gareth as a queen to be served But none of them made me their entire life, their heart I think Tho to be held and cared for, then released I didn’t think you’d ever let go"

"I won’t," Tallanvor said softly

"You go to Tear Yet you said you’d never leave"

"My heart stays here," he said "I knohat it is to love froase I’d done it for years before this fool’s trip began, and I will do it for years yet My heart is a traitor Perhaps some Trolloc will do me a favor and rip it free of my chest"

"So bitter," she whispered

"You have made it amply clear that uardser," she said

"Not in naase Just in mind"

A leaf fell froin and verdant richness, it should have had a long life yet

"Do you know the worst part of this?" Tallanvor asked "It’s the hope The hope I let ht et about him"

"Him?"

"Gaebril," Tallanvor snapped "I can see that you still think of him Even after what he did to you I leave my heart here, but you left yours in Caemlyn" From the corner of her eye, she could see him turn away "Whatever it is you saw in him, I don’t have it I’m only a siht words You fawned over Gaebril, and he all but ignored you That’s how love is Bloody ashes, I’ve all but done the sa

"Well," he said, "that’s why I have to go You’re safe now, and that’s all that ht help an to walk away, feet crunching twigs

"Gaebril was one of the Forsaken," she said

The crunching twigs stopped