Beneath the Citadel

"If — when — they wake up, tell them I— I don`t know. Tell them I said whatever it is I`m meant to say in a situation like this." Vesper only stared at her. In the mist she was a pale wraith, almost a stranger but not quite. "You`re not meant to say anything," she said at last. "You`re meant to come back."

His father had told him once that in any situation the right choice usually didn`t feel like a choice at all.

"I`m serious. You`re the only reason we made it out of the dungeons alive in the first place. You`re the only reason I`m alive now. You always know the right thing to do." "Then why are you always arguing with me?" Alys couldn`t bring herself to match Cassa`s earnestness. Cassa didn`t rise to the bait. Her tone remained soft and genuine." "Because I`m afraid that if I`m wrong about one thing, I`m wrong about everything."