"Like them? They're her parting gift." Kier let a bit more of Madness flow into him. Unwanted thoughts came to his mind, and Athyn's face was bathed with the green light of his eyes. "So I'd remember her, she told me. But I never told you this. Because I allowed you to distract me. I was using you just as much as you were using me."
"Kier?" Ina was closer now.
In Madness, Kier thought about turning to let the Witch see him like this.
"Why don't I just stay like this from now on? I could charm her. Make her mine with Magic, so she couldn't help but to adore me…"
Then he remembered Mina pecking his eye out. Medes shredding the skin of his arm. Cinna hanging from his bare chest, nails plunged into his flesh, sliding down to his abdomen. And more recently, Mint trying to crush his hand with her jaws.
The Mage closed his eyes and breathed in as a single tear ran down his cheek.