Tears of Astoria

by J.B. Wright

It's almost like there's a whole other person hanging out with you beneath your skin.”

“Stop it, you two! It's perfectly normal. My body craves the metals in the soil. That's what the healer told Mama.”

taking notice of the ‘U’ engraved in it.

Whisperers.

Trinity War where they’d executed anyone with abnormal abilities.

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.”

The bluer the blood, the closer to our mother-goddess, Astoria.

“But with all you’ve lost in the last few days, I’m surprised you’re willing to lose any more, despite mistakes that were made.

“That’s it, pet, come to me.”

I wrap my other arm around him so that both my hands rest behind his neck. He lets out a long sigh. “Aislinn, I-” “No, let’s not talk about any of it tonight. I’m so incredibly tired of hard conversations.” “Okay, no hard conversations.”

ugh when he just gets it!!! :)

“Well, either way, I think we were fated to be together. I have been drawn to you since the first moment my eyes met yours, even when I shouldn’t have. Even when I tried not to be. It was irritating as all Haile, but I ached for you, every moment of every day.”

id catch a grenade for ya!!

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

“Men. I swear to the gods you’re all clueless sometimes.

“Don’t do that. Don’t hide from me ever. I think you are the most beautiful creature to exist. In this realm or the next.”