"I've always had kind of a warped relationship with guilt." Just saying it like that made her heart twist, for all the times she and Pyro had to remind themselves and each other of the fact. "And I have given up hope." Hope that had been chewing up her insides for months.

"He never had anybody who loved him and only him, and I do. And he loves me, as impossible as that is to believe, he does, and I know it."