be like the love that discovered the sin

JACK

"Did you forget what I said to you that day in the Greatwood?" Jack asks gently, sitting himself back up. "When I said that what Pierce did to you was never happenin' to you again?" That the violence that had burned in his blood had been what had let him see his feelings for the Doubletake for what they were? "The time to question me about playin' hero, if that's what you wanna call it, was back then." There's no anger in his eyes, despite Flora spoiling for a fight.

And as for her part in all of this, he looks up towards the dark sky, to the blacker-than-black space overhead in the distance where Stormbreak hangs. "An' you really think that'll be the end of it?" he asks. "That you'll go up there, Dahlia will take you under her wing, and Torchline'll be safe forever? That she won't just use the fact that you're sweet on the Family to do whatever she likes while you bob your head in agreement?"

That's without even taking into consideration Torchline's other leader, or the opinions of the rest of her people.

"This isn't another region, Flora, or a business negotiation. It's a plague, an' it'll eat everythin' in its path until it's done."

when I look at something, I see it for what it could be
when I look at something, I see how it ends

Code stolen from Queen Sky