Only people you trust can ever really betray you, Amber.
My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.
It had been a couple of years and I was neither dead, nor undead, which I ranked as an achievement.
...the only real fool is the last fool
First her body goes missing, then her finger.
This is the gift and the sorrow of the Athanate; to see your loves pass before you like the days of summer while your heart still beats. To keep your vigil in the shadows and rise again with every sun.