To Kill a Shadow (Mistlands, #1)
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Started reading June 10, 2024
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point.
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“Patience was never one of your virtues.”
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History always has a way of repeating itself, no
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matter how hard we try to rewrite the story.”
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“All I had to do was nearly die for you to offer me answers?”
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“I’m not that easy to kill.”
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“Do tell me more of these murderous shadows, though.
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History always has a
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way of repeating itself, no matter how hard we try to rewrite the story.”
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“Stop being a tough guy and let me take a look.”
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Just like the sun that only visited me in my dreams, Kiara was addictive.
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Steal
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some of that wonder, that spirit.
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Not to keep forever, but maybe just to borrow so...
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Snap out of it, Ki, you’re in a fantastical garden from a damn fairy tale.
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“It’s just chilly, and I have very sensitive skin.”
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“And here I thought I was going to get scolded for being too cynical.
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“I’ll start a fire, since you so graciously killed this poor animal.”
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Knowledge had
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a way of altering one’s world, and sometimes not in a good way.
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“You can be rather serious, you know, so I brought some fun reading to lighten the mood.”
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That we aren’t leaving here and that there’s no timeline or threat of the world ending?”
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“They’re only scars. They don’t make you into a monster.
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strands, and suddenly, I was filled with such raw freedom.
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If I had known Jude could kiss like it was his job, then I would have been all over him a lot sooner.
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“It might be a little overcooked, but I never claimed to be a chef.”
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The deep hues shimmered, and for just a moment, I saw the haunting beauty in them.
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“Your tattoo,”
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“What does it mean? The three interwoven circles?”
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Tiny whorls decorated the insides of every loop, the intricate designs reminding me of flowing vines.
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But I’d be a hopeful fool to assume all three keys are in one place.
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That would be too easy, and I hardly count us as lucky.
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“That man has more secrets than truths,”
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“I, for one, am still pretending that we live here, and that there is no suicide mission or curse to contend with.
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“You taste better than I imagined. And I’ve imagined you so very much.”
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“We really do need to sleep before we do something we shouldn’t.”
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It felt like that pull between us had finally snapped, and now we were irrevocably tied together.
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Great. A feeling. Those were never good.
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“We shouldn’t risk an entire kingdom full of lives just to satiate your feeling.”
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“The lines didn’t seem so blurry yesterday when you had your tongue down my throat.”
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“I’m being safe, and you know that. You’re just being difficult,”
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“Believe it or not, I kind of like you alive.”
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What part of ‘I don’t want you to die’ do you not understand?
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“As much as it might pain you, sometimes withdrawing from a fight will help you win the war.”
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I’d never claimed he was a compassionate man, my uncle, but I respected him.
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Just…faith.
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“Your definition of fun worries me,”
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It scared me, sometimes, the memories that lived within me.
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As always, the end goal would be my blade sliding across a throat.
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“We could throw Jake at them as a distraction. His body will take them longer to consume,”