Tears of Astoria

by J.B. Wright

“Out of trouble? Oh no, Aislinn, darling, I am the trouble.”

“I told you I would protect you. I’d walk through a thousand miles of fire if it meant I could keep you safe.”

I couldn’t look at you because I knew, I fucking knew, the second your hand accidentally brushed against mine and you turned those gorgeous green eyes to me that I would let all of Katova burn for you and that if you were ever hurt, I’d be the one burning it. Because in the depths of your gaze I saw my future. I saw my home.”

“Don’t you understand that if something happened to you, I’d have to burn the whole damn realm to ash?”

“You scared the shit out of me. I thought we were going to lose you and that thought was unbearable. I wasn’t alive until you… living… but not alive. You stoked the flame that now burns fiercely inside of me.”

You are my favorite fallen star.”