“Why did I ask you to come? Because I could not do anything else. Even as I sealed the invitation I raged against myself – my own stupidity and selfishness – and still I could not stop myself. I asked you because when I’m not with you, Lin Caster, I feel as if some part of me has been torn away. I feel as if I am bleeding, insensible with the pain of a wound. No one can see save myself. When you are with me… It is the only time I feel whole.”
-Conor to Lin, Ragpicker King, p. 376













