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Never before had I known what it was like to crave dancing in the rain until I was touched by a night storm.
“It’s daytime. I suppose you belong to the night.” “I never would have told you my name if you were going to get witty with it.”
“When falls Night, the world will drown in Starlight,”
“If we’re lost or apart, we’ll look up and know we’re mapping the same stars. And should death part us, we’ll know the other made it to the skies when the star that shines the brightest gives three blinks.”
Because the thought of you beautifully unleashed is driving me wild. Like I said, darkness becomes you.”
“You seem to have an obsession with my hair.” “I have an obsession with you.”
“I’m going to kill him. I will never say his name because I plan to wipe it from existence on this realm so you may never hear it again.”
“I’m going to right everything he wronged. Give you everything he denied you. Worship every inch of the goddess you are, starting right now.
“Once upon a time, a woman stumbled into a room.” His hand curled under my knee, lifting. “She didn’t just dance. She moved as the most exquisite thing to have ever lived.” His hand flattened against my calf, and I held his neck tightly for balance, realizing what he was doing as he tested my flexibility with care. “And there was a male … who fell completely at her mercy that night. Who would have trekked through the fiery depths of hell to see her bend like that again.”
“It was all real, Starlight. Everything we’ve been through. Everything I feel for you is real. When the dawn comes, please remember that.”
One of birth. One of reputation. One he chose. Rainyte. Nightsdeath. Nyte.
“A slave passed from one monster to another still wears shackles.”
“The brightest star needs the darkest night,” I repeated, finding him through words that bound us like a promise. “I need you. And I’m not afraid of you.”
“There is no being on this earth that exists without a weakness,”
“There is a monster in all of us,” he said, hiding any emotion from me as though he knew my wickedness at the forefront would use it. “Those who pretend they don’t harbor one are the ones who end up slipping. At some point or another it comes out. And the longer it is denied, the harder it will be unleashed all at once.”
“I have waited more than three hundred years for you to come back,” he said, equally as hushed. “I came to terms with believing it wouldn’t matter when I couldn’t find a way to break the curse of our clashing existence. Then, when I became trapped … I can’t deny there was a selfish part of me that didn’t give a fuck about the world, or that my father and brother had betrayed me, because I would get to see you again.”
He was my night. The embrace of darkness that whispered through the stars.
“You have no idea, love,” he said, a crack in his voice slowing me from hyperventilating, “how I would tear my own heart from my chest if it could help you right now.”
I thought I’d have the strength to look at you and not fall. But I looked at you … and I plummeted. I didn’t stand a chance.”
“Why don’t you sit at the head of the table?” I ground out. “Until I replace it to be wide enough to fit two there, I’ll remain here.”
“Can I ask you something?” That seemed to lift something from him. “Anything. Anytime you need me. I would stop the rage of a battlefield just to hear you.”
“I might be made of light and you of dark, but I wanted to meet you there. You haven’t always been something I can see, but you’ve always been something I can feel. It’s safe and promising.
“I would meet you in the darkness. Every time you called,”
The stars were dying, and I didn’t want to become one of them if he left. I wanted to fight it. Fate. Death. Time.
“Destiny is cruel to bring us together. Because you are the most precious gift I can never have.”
“Your soul is magnetic. There won’t exist a time or place where I won’t be drawn to it. And, love, you might look the same, you might remember everything we almost had one day, but here and now I’m falling for you. I found you with a steel heart in my chest, and for the first time in three centuries it doesn’t feel so cold. Not because of what you were, but for everything you are.
Was it possible to belong not to any place, but with a person? To find home not on land, but in another soul?
I made my hair pink as a color I liked to show them I could be feminine and best them. One time, I even put a guard on his ass in dress. They stopped mocking me after that.”
“I don’t desire you for a quick single release simply because your emotions are running high,” he snapped back. “You’re nothing more than that to me.”
The veil was a mockery. It silenced my magick but there’s nothing in all the realms that could erase my feelings for Astraea. They were absolute across space. Inevitable across time.
Whether she wanted to fight me or let me worship her body like she deserved, I was desperate for anything she would unleash upon me.
She was the most perfect thing to ever exist. A brilliant star I vowed with my life would never go out again, even if I had to be the purest darkness for her to shine the brightest against.
“Why me?” she asked quietly. “There has never been anyone else,”
Come the fall of every star in the sky to make sure she remained here, I would watch darkness shroud the land with pleasure even if she despised me.
Oh my Starlight, we’re going to save the world or destroy it trying, but either way, I’d make sure we stood in either ending together this time.
