The Mysterious Maiden: “I still did not know who this bold maiden was or why she came to me and spoke the way she did. Then, as I took the letter from her hands, understanding hit me like a strike of lightning. What she gave me was from the woman who consumed my heart. I could not believe I held such a gift from God, and I slowly opened it with shaking hands.” “Nestan, my sunbeam, wrote to me, saying, ‘Oh lion, do not let your wound appear! I am yours, so why do you die? I despise vain fainting. When you finish reading my words, Asmath will tell you all I would say, but I must ask, what love do you think pitiful falling and dying is?’”
Book One: Avtandil's Quest (CH 29)
The Mysterious Maiden: “I still did not know who this bold maiden was or why she came to me and spoke the way she did. Then, as I took the letter from her hands, understanding hit me like a strike of lightning. What she gave me was from the woman who consumed my heart. I could not believe I held such a gift from God, and I slowly opened it with shaking hands.” “Nestan, my sunbeam, wrote to me, saying, ‘Oh lion, do not let your wound appear! I am yours, so why do you die? I despise vain fainting. When you finish reading my words, Asmath will tell you all I would say, but I must ask, what love do you think pitiful falling and dying is?’”