When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment ...
love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid...
The Disc's greatest lovers were undoubtedly Mellius and Gretelina, whose pure, passionate and soul searing affair would have scorched the pages of History if they had not, because of some unexplained quirk of fate, been born two hundred years apart on different contients. However, the gods took pity on them and turned them into an ironing board* and her into a small brass bollard.
* when you're a god, you don't have to have reasons
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