| Chapter 27: Giantfriend |
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After a moment, Linden broke the silence. "You did the right thing." Her voice wore severity like a mask. "They've been uncomfortable ever since we left Landsrop--the Sunbane is the only world they understand. And they've lost everything else. They need to do something personal and important. But you--" She stared at him as if in her eyes he had become an object of fear and desire. "I don't know you. I don't know if you're the strongest man I've ever met, or the sickest. With all that venom in you, you still-- I don't know what I'm doing here." Without a pause, as if she were still asking the same question, she said, "Why did you give them the krill? I thought you needed it. A weapon against Vain."
Yes, Covenant breathed. And an alternative to wild magic. That's what I thought But by accepting the krill, Sunder and hollian had made it once more into a tool of hope. "I don't want any more weapons," he murmured to Linden. "I'm already too dangerous." |