"So don't," Erin says, affectionately, soothingly. "This world is not on your shoulders. You don't have to be the one and only Lady de Rolo, with the souls of thousands cupped in your gentle hands. You can be a passenger, one of us. An equal, a comrade in arms, someone we love and protect and support. Even the gods aboard live in the same cabins as everyone else, you know?"
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