All the shards we keep stepping on

Liam might have argued with her that maybe Pierce wouldn't have killed Flora if not for the war that everyone seemed to be intent on waging against the Family, but he didn't want to fight with her. Not when it would be easier to show her, if she would agree to come with him. If she'd join him as a Friend of the Family, she'd see. She'd understand. Then they could be - well, whatever they were before this invisible divide had cropped up between them. When his knuckles brushed against her cheek, she seemed dazed, almost. He returned her smile, his heart fluttering in his chest, because surely that smile meant that she would come with him. Emboldened by this turn of events, he twined the fingers of his free hand with Maea's. "To Stormbreak," he said, in a tone that implied of course that was where they were going. "To the Family." Liam I am the patron saint of lost causes