...well. I wouldn't say we changed fate, really. [ a thoughtful frown. ] Gansey still died when we kissed. It was necessary, and he knew it would happen, but even knowing that it was difficult to prepare for it. So we made another sacrifice to bring him back to us.
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...Thus our conversation about fate, in the house of cards. [ about what it means to keep a fate, and break it. ]
Was that Gansey, do you think? Yet, you are here, and he is not.
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It was Gansey, and I'm here and he's not because we brought him back to life in the end. [ a pause. ] Also, I'm not actually dead.
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[ the relief in his voice is so genuine with that. like. oh, thank goodness - on both counts, for zuriel and for gansey, alike. ]
...It's a bit like a fairytale, when you step back from it. To save your true love's life and change your fate.
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