I AM THE ONLY PERSON THE VILLAIN CANNOT KILL
"This is too much. All of it. The countdown, the assassins, the pendant, and now this, a woman dying and living again in the span of a single night while I'm apparently the only person cursed to remember it."
"You're not cursed," Kael said quietly, echoing words he had spoken to her once before, in the rain, on the day they first met. He crossed the room and knelt before her, close enough that she could see the raw sincerity in his eyes. "You are the only person who can see the truth clearly. That is not a curse. It is a terrible, lonely kind of gift."
"It doesn't feel like a gift."
"No," he admitted softly. "I imagine it doesn't."