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I can’t lose anyone else.”
“Know when you can’t win.”
Truth be told, she’s likely a lost cause. As is our world.
Only monsters could defeat monsters.
So much power…and all at once.
The ring around the moon shifted once more, the blue morphing to a pale yellow, but it provided enough light to see, and I shot through the bone-white trees after her.
If she had died, I feared what I would’ve done to them as a result.
Something dangerous tugged at my heart.
“And I promise I won’t take off into a sprint at the first sign of danger this time.”
As if not panicking was at all possible.
Screw what Uncle Micah had said, telling me to hide no matter the consequences.
“Well, you aren’t trying to kill me this time,” Jake muttered. “So that’s an improvement already.”
I know what lies within your heart is pure and golden, and a few scars can’t change that.”
Sometimes in order not to break, we saw only what we wanted. What we needed.
All of those who perished in the cursed lands became monsters.
Micah always did have a flair for the dramatic.
“You simply never asked the right questions.”
“Aurora gave her life to a cause, a vital one.”
“I believe you humans may say my actions were borne of
guilt.”
Uncle Micah was more than a mere liar. He was a god.
“You are one of the keys.”
The horse seemed to have a decent idea where she was going. Or rather, she sure as shit didn’t let me lead her.
wooden cage
“And my grandmother, she lied to me my entire life.”
“Everything I have ever known has been a cruel lie.”
I’d been gone all of a
couple hours and all hells had broken loose.
but a monster didn’t rescue me, didn’t make me believe in hope again.”
“You saved me. Kiara Frey. You are the only light I will vow to protect.”
“At least now you can die together like the foolish heroes from lore.”
Jake, who hardly looked able to stand, let alone ready for battle, ambled to her other side, his
hands shaking as he lifted his weapon.
Loyalty was a greater
commodity than brute force or skill.
I should have been afraid—and maybe, in truth, I was—but the emotion at the forefront was pure relief.
Love is not the absence of self, but rather, the absence of fear,
For only the brave drop their armor and walk onto a battlefield with
their hearts ...
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I was both the night and a forgotten light.
The vast universe of black and the endless possibility of the day.
“You had everything,”
“A love that they once wrote poetry about. Someone to share a thousand lifetimes with.
“You should have just loved her back, but you were never capable of such a selfless thing, were you?”
“A good man is often the one who has known the most evil,”
I would give all of me to them, to Jude, and when the day returned, I wondered if I’d be able to watch it all unfold from beyond the veil of death.
We were tied together, two halves of a whole.
No one had ever looked at me like she did. Like I was a man who meant something.
“And after we fight about who was right and who was wrong, I’m going to kiss you senseless.”
I didn’t fear death, and he was so much better than he believed.
