Horrorroyaletenokerar Better -

"I promised my brother I would never go to Ten O'Kerar," Mara told them. "I promised him when he left—he made me promise it like one of those vows you tell children so they sleep. I broke that promise when I walked into this courtyard. The pain of breaking it has been mine. Let it be the thing you take."

"What payment?" she whispered.

She would have said yes, but when she opened her mouth she tasted peppermint and felt the half-remembered warmth of a horrorroyaletenokerar better