“If you would truly rather be dead than go on living the way you do, you have nothing to lose by trying to change things, have you?” Britta said, carefully keeping any trace of pity from her voice. “There is more to life than Illica, you now. The world is wide, and full of wonders.”

“If you would truly rather be dead than go on living the way you do, you have nothing to lose by trying to change things, have you?” Britta said, carefully keeping any trace of pity from her voice. “There is more to life than Illica, you now. The world is wide, and full of wonders.”

— Emily Rodda