She knew she should say something profound, something beautiful in response. Instead, she spoke the truth. 'If we make it out of here alive, I'm going to kiss you unconscious.

It’s good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan.”“You only say that because you have no shame.

You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.