Sage Pov
I was starting to realize why Jareth never wanted to take me with him, despite the fact that I was the heir. I was too soft for this, all of this pain, all of this destruction. I had plenty of survival talents, but when it came down to killing someone in cold blood, I couldn’t stop shaking. Or maybe…maybe this was normal for the first time. Maybe it gets easier, over time. Maybe it makes us numb, the monsters in front of us, and the nightmares we have to live with every night. I wonder if my dad ever has nightmares, if he ever sees the eyes of the people he’s killed. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to stop seeing those eyes, any of them. All of them floating around and around, silently begging me, silently judging me. If it wasn’t for Falyn, I would have stopped and turned around
