“It is enough," she said finally. "But there will be another, less tangible cost." "Anything," said Lundy. "That word, that promise, strike it from your tongue," said the Archivist. "With that word, I could ask for the heart in your chest and the blood in your veins and you could not stop me. There is no value fair enough to warrant an open check.”
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