The Last One

by Rachel Howzell Hall

I open my eyes and choose violence.

His insight is an ambush—I didn’t expect it at all, and now, a lump forms deep in my throat.

‘Not knowing your past may be better than having an awful one.’”

“Scorch his world by simply believing you are worthy of being loved by a person who will love you always. Your father may be the daystar, but the nightstar creates the tides of the seas that sustain life. The nightstar provides light in the darkness, relief from unbearable heat; it slows the realm and allows life to flourish.

Philia snickers. “But you can’t eat too many. Causes gout.”

Im sorry. We have earthshakes instead of quakes and yet we have literal GOUT????????

battawhale,

And tbh i picture this as a ghast from minecraft

I know this bird. A gerammoc!

Im so tired

What creative names will these people hurl at me? Gutterslag? Lint-licker?

Bffr

“I oarl ha’a’moc hua iya au rro farossoc rlo llalu lya’aum immosa.”

Actually go away with his key smash

Where am I? As I move to answer the door, my eyes skip from the hearth to the window, the large mirror, and the vase of fresh blue flowers. That’s right. I’m at the Broken Hammer, a guest of Separi Eleweg.

Duh?

“Oh, so you didn’t tell them everything?” Gileon gawks at Jadon. “Are you going to say something, brother?”

Oh!!

Oh shit.

Every chapter ends this way

Dry lightning cracks across the sky,

Pop off carrie underwood

“That tat of yours?” Elyn says,

Tat.