Kintsugi is a pottery technique. When something breaks, like a vase, they glue it back together with melted gold. Instead of making the cracks invisible, they make them beautiful. To celebrate the history of the object. What it's been through. And I was just... Thinking of us like that. My heart full of gold veins, instead of cracks.

Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed vil­lages, kid­napped princesses.

We looked at each other with that resentment you feel when you want something so much it’s causing you pain, so much you start to hate it a little.