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I needed powerful allies, and who better than the children this realm had abandoned? If I could find them and convince them to fight at my side, we could be a force to be reckoned with.
I assume this will be something she does as this story cotinues.
He had a way of anticipating the things I didn’t know and slipping the answers to me in a way that never made me feel ignorant or ashamed.
All their bows and genuflects were for the Crown above my head. They did not know me, they did not fear me, and they certainly did not respect me.
He smiled—a true smile, broad and exquisite, his face radiating such matchless brilliance that I pitied the sun.
I hadn’t expected to find friends.
“You are my Queen, and I am your sword. Point me at your enemies, and watch them fall. Lead this world, Diem, and I will follow you—into war, into death, into the tundra of hell itself.” He took my palm and set it against his chest, just above the patch of unscarred skin that lay beneath his jacket. “You are the fate my heart was spared for. As long as it beats, you will never fight alone.”
It’s a reminder that no challenge can destroy the parts of us that truly matter. We’re not reborn in the flames. We’re revealed.”
“Burn, my Queen. Glow so bright, the darkness trembles.”
Luther gazed at me like I was the embodiment of hope fulfilled. Like I was the answer to every question he had ever asked, the harmony to every song he’d ever sung. He looked at me like I was the sun and the moon and the stars, all the light in the world, shining a path for him out of the lonely dark.
