Larksong Grotto doctor sleep

no, she wished to say. you cannot.  but vuk was silent as hiram -- reek! -- writhed in the grip of his emotions. he knew her to be correct. she heard the tears within his voice as she turned her eyes upon the water and kept them there as she listened. vuk feared if she turned to the man again her weak resolve would founder and fall, and she would embrace him and let these necessary words be swallowed up in the desperate cadence of their dance.

"k-keep your w-word, ree -- hiram," vuk corrected, her own voice now shaking with the force of her fury and her sorrow. "s-serve raas." at last the girl's turqoise eyes came to rest upon the deepset earth-toned gaze of her lover. "t-this p-pack l-loved you ... and y-you turned y-your b-back on t-them, for t-the daystar." 

she searched his eyes with her own, unable to hide or cease the rivulet of tears. "d-do not b-break a-another ... p-promise for y-your o ...wn w-wants," she went on, reaching quickly the end of her abilities, convulsed as they were by emotion. "b-but i-if y-you s-serve ... h-him ... t-there is n-nothing f-for us."