Fear is more powerful than pain.

“People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that beca…”

“Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so …”

“Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be…”

“I don’t …” I sound like I am being strangled. “My family is all dead, or traito…”