Coconut Grove Blooming like the shadows upon you I drowned beside

She smiled a little at that, letting herself relax against him. I'm always doing something I shouldn't, Reverie murmured playfully. Her voice turned somber with her next words. We had to leave. A witch was threatening us, and... and I ruined our life at Swiftcurrent Creek.
Her throat tightened, and she couldn't finish. It's over now, She said finally, but she was thinking of Lestan now, thinking of how she'd taken him from his home, how she'd driven him to misery and left him with nothing. Tears filled her eyes, and she pressed closer to Boone, dissolving into her grief and into the sudden shattering realization that it had to be done, truly finished. Because she loved him; because she wanted him to smile again, and laugh, and rest easily.
And that meant being without her.