"Technically it was a deal, and magic always comes with a price, but she took advantage of your need to help someone you love, your compassion, and your goodness."
She reached up to place her hand over his heart.
"We had to re-cast my curse to protect ourselves. And when we needed to cast it a third time, I had nothing left to sacrifice, nothing left that I loved. My stepdaughter had to cast the curse by taking her husband's heart. As he lay breathing his last, she begged me to take half her heart and give it to him. We didn't know if it could be done. But she was willing to risk everything rather than lose him.
"It worked, Dyson. It saved him. Because her heart was big enough for both of them. Neither of them feels any less intensely than they ever did." Possibly because True Love had played a hand in it, but they couldn't know, she and Dyson, if there was True Love, or love at all, unless she took the risk.
"I don't have her heart or her compassion. But my sister powered an impossible spell based on the resilience of my heart. Even if I can't feel fully for a little while, I'll recover." And if she didn't, it wasn't irreversible.
She looked up into his eyes and let him see the certainty, the willingness, and the beginnings of love there. "It's worth the risk. You are." Even if he never loved her, it would be worth it, if it worked.
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She reached up to place her hand over his heart.
"We had to re-cast my curse to protect ourselves. And when we needed to cast it a third time, I had nothing left to sacrifice, nothing left that I loved. My stepdaughter had to cast the curse by taking her husband's heart. As he lay breathing his last, she begged me to take half her heart and give it to him. We didn't know if it could be done. But she was willing to risk everything rather than lose him.
"It worked, Dyson. It saved him. Because her heart was big enough for both of them. Neither of them feels any less intensely than they ever did." Possibly because True Love had played a hand in it, but they couldn't know, she and Dyson, if there was True Love, or love at all, unless she took the risk.
"I don't have her heart or her compassion. But my sister powered an impossible spell based on the resilience of my heart. Even if I can't feel fully for a little while, I'll recover." And if she didn't, it wasn't irreversible.
She looked up into his eyes and let him see the certainty, the willingness, and the beginnings of love there. "It's worth the risk. You are." Even if he never loved her, it would be worth it, if it worked.