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October 8 - October 20, 2025
“You’re a fool to follow her.”
“You’re a fool not to,”
“Once you’ve seen a Middengard Wyrm
“I don’t want to know what that is,” Baxian said.
“Think an earthworm with a mouth full of double rows of teeth. The size of two city buses.” “I said I didn’t want to know what that was,”
“They weren’t fans of the Starlight Fancy dolls,”
“Shall I demonstrate how I make males like you talk to me?”
Now two Fae females had entered. She hoped all the long-dead princes buried in the caves were thrashing in their sarcophagi.
“What’s your point?” “That the right leader makes all the difference.”
“Then make her death count for something, Bryce.”
Any amusement or rage leached from his expression as he murmured to Morven, “Run.” “Now that’s the first wise decision you’ve made,” Bryce mocked.
We don’t necessarily worship the same gods that you do. I think our gods predate this world, but I’ve never confirmed it.”
“Now I don’t fucking care who you are, so long as you’re mine.”
He’d kill him. He’d rip Pollux limb from limb, feather by feather for putting that flinch there, for hurting her—
But Ruhn lay awake, holding her tight, and did not let go until dawn.
Ready to follow her into Hel.
“It seems you got a little lost on your way to find me, Bryce Quinlan. But welcome to Hel.”
“Welcome, son,” said the Prince of the Pit.
Thanatos scoffed. “You are no son of his.” He yanked off his war helmet, cradling it under an arm. “If anything, you are mine.”
“Your starlight smells … fresher.”
Bryce said nonchalantly, “New deodorant.”
“The black crowns were collars in Hel,”
As you were made by Hel’s princes,
Bryce ordered the demon princes, starlight rippling from her. Thanatos sniffed the air once more, savoring it, and earned a glare from Aidas.
“You don’t think the ghouls will appreciate it?”
“What blinds an Oracle?” Bryce whispered. “Theia’s star,” Aidas said softly.
If someone like you, a world-walker, did come along and Avallen was somehow not accessible for you to claim Theia’s power, we still needed a way to … fuel you up, as it were.” He faced Hunt at last.
“Funny,” Bryce said, “I didn’t take you for a quilter.”
“I’m sorry,” Hunt interrupted, “but are you implying that I was made by you two assholes?
“I am darkness itself,” Apollion said softly. “True darkness. The kind that exists in the bowels of a black hole.”
“Our four other brothers are currently engaged in other conflicts, helping other worlds.”
“I didn’t realize you guys were, like, intergalactic saviors,”
“No true son of Hel can be caged.”
“I cut that fucker into pieces for what he did to Danika.”
Ruhn, who had driven the sword right through their father’s cold heart.
The line will end with me, you fucking prick, Ruhn said into his father’s mind, because I yield my crown, my title, to the queen.
“As I was saying,” Bryce drawled, “for the moment, I’m queen. I’m judge, jury …”
“And I’m your motherfucking executioner.”
“It’s time to let Hel in, isn’t it?”
Poor me, with my daddy issues. Daddies? I don’t even know.”
You are going to take those two buzzards”—she nodded to Flynn and Declan,
Buzzards!!!!!!
“I go with Ruhn,”
“Come dawn,” Bryce said, and her chest flared with starlight that lit up the entire countryside, “we’re retaliating.”
I see you, Ruhn, she said gently. All of you.
“I could use a sample of the parasite.” He halted. “How?” He answered his own question. “Oh. A glass of water.”
turned his bowels watery
There was no stopping Syrinx as he bounded off the helicopter and raced for her through the high grasses.
“Bryce Adelaide Quinlan, what’s all this talk about you jumping around between worlds?”
“We won’t bite!” she called to the Helhound. “Liar,” Fury muttered,
“So we’ll all be with you.”
