Yeah? Okay, she said, staring up into the stars. Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo's already dead? He thought she was dead so he killed himself right next to her? Yeah. That was awesome. A pause, followed by Ow, suggested elbow punctuation on the part of Mik. Karou ignored it. Well, imagine if she woke up and he was still alive, but... She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. But he had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people. β¨ Laini Taylor (2015). The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy, p.534, Hachette UK
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