A Contract With My Demon
"Without an ending, the stories just... keep going! There will be no rest! No closure! The universe will become a run on sentence!"
"Good," Elara said. "Let it run on."
She pulled a lighter from her duster pocket…..the one Vane had given her back in the High Court. She flicked the flame.
"Elara, wait," Vane said, grabbing her wrist. "If you burn this, your story with me... it never reaches a conclusion. We'll be in this 'Volatile Middle' forever. The tension, the fighting, the hunger... it never settles into peace."