“I’d willingly follow you anywhere you have to go. It doesn’t have to be too terribly close. But there are far too many places, near and far, whence I have traced your shadow. If you just read between the lines, you’d see precisely what I mean.” Aeliana could practically feel the lost beauty of Jacques’ cold reality that slipped between her fingers. She might as well have been burying her head in the ground for all the sin and death that she encountered. ...