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by
Rebecca Ross
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September 2 - September 6, 2025
He was looking at Iris Winnow.
“There shouldn’t be any hounds, or eithrals, or bombs. You should get to be children, young people, adults who can dream and love and live your lives without all of this … horrible mess.”
And how I would love to be on my knees before you now, surrendering to you and you alone.
You remember how you said that word to me in the infirmary, post-trenches? You believed I had come to the Bluff to outshine you. And I would speak this word back to you now, but only because I would love to see you burn with splendor. I would love to see your words catch fire with mine.
they know their strengths. They lean into them in times of trouble.”
To think how many people we cross paths with in our lives. How someone like me has found someone like you.
There is no magic above or below that will ever steal this from me again.
“We mortals have the freedom to choose who or what we worship, if we worship at all.”
“Did you think that I would let him steal this last moment from me? When I would surrender only to you, take you in my hands, and burn with you before the end comes?”
“I couldn’t bear to live in a world where she was slain by your selfishness,
You are the author of my wounds to begin with.
“And what a cruel and terrible thing it is, to be a divine with such power and magic, and yet find yourself so small-minded and afraid that you decide to live out your endless days harming others.
would betray you a thousandfold for her.”
don’t think we know what we’re made of until the worst moment possible happens. Then