In my time, he said, they believed in witches. Are you a witch, Honor, that you make me say these things to you? Causing him to rip open wounds that had stayed safely scabbed over for so long that, most of the time, he managed to forget they existed. Her hands, so very, very gentle, continued to hold his face as she tugged him down until their foreheads touched. I'm no witch, Dmitri. If I was, I'd know how to fix you.

Archangel's Blade (ed. Penguin, 2011) - ISBN: 9781101543887