While the heart beats, hope lingers.

“The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that …”

“For almost as long as she could remember Maerad had been imprisoned behind wall…”

“You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearth…”

“Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know …”