I was still on the ground on my hands and knees when the Queen walked over to me. “Have you decided?”
I shook my head. How could I ever make that decision? “I can’t do that, I can’t do either of those things. Nicon is here because of me so I can’t let her die, but why do you need my memories? That’s the cruelest thing you could ask for.”
She reminded me of those humans called scientists as she stared down at me. I was a puzzle for her to crack more than someone she wanted to help. “You are an alchemist, you gave up something for that. How is what I am asking so different?”
True, I was an alchemist and I had given up my humanity to be one. Not in the same way that Argent believed, but still it was something that had been taken away from me. I was not the same person I had been in the pas
