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She’ll always choose me when it comes down to it.
“Let’s get you cleaned up, sweetheart,” I whisper to her softly and she nods into my chest.
What do I know about comforting people? I usually just kill them. Comfort is complex and foreign to me.
“Do you want me to kill him?”
“They were all your friends, weren’t they? The ones you blighted.”
I don’t do vulnerable, and yet the moment her mouth opens
for me, our tongues feverishly seek one another.
“Don’t try to fix me—some things are meant to be broken.”
I’m meant to be broken.
Arthur keeps them fresh in my mind, as punishment, I think.
It is as if she’s warming that dead part of me and bringing it back to life.
Because I wanted to end it for him before he became like Midas.”
“What is it that runs rampant through your mind, Terra?”
You’re more than all of us, Terra.”
“You want in? The dark isn’t for pretty little things like you, babe.”
“Does your Shadow burn where we touch? Like the second we connect, we’ll ignite and never part again completely?”
“I told you that you wouldn’t like the dark—the wicked things of the past.”
Raine, Elias, Finn, Arthur.
“You will. Or you’ll die in the second exam. You’ll all fucking die if I don’t start seeing some improvement.”
I’ll need to go deeper in your soul to reverse time on this one, Amser mutters indifferently as if it sits upon a throne inside my spirit and dully watches my life like it’s some disturbing opera.
“I want you to be strong enough to stop me before they send us here.”
“How else? If it comes to that, I want you to kill me.”
Restraint is sexy.
“You can’t be mad at me about it.”
It’s that we’re in public and I have so many other men in my life at the moment. But what’s one more?
My Shadow doesn’t seem to care.
Cuz shes a hoe
“Oh, little Nova, this was a bad idea,”
“Because all I’ve ever known is control with my Shadow, and yours crumbles all that work in mere seconds. I cannot speak of the things I want to do to you.”
I wanted to play with his dark side. Why did you run away?
“Hello, sweetheart. What are you doing up here past class hours?”
“Playing with Kallos, are we?”
“Now he is someone I want to watch ruin you. Raine can join too and get some pointers from him,”
“Way more than me, sweetheart. Who do you think raised me?”
don’t remember my real parents or the village I was born in.
All I have are memories of torture and intense training.
The first ...
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“I am in no need of comfort. The darkness holds me.”
Only we can see the hearts. Emerai cannot hide anything from time.
We see all the moments of a Shadow's past, what they’ve taken and tried to discard.
His heart is older, among the first to be stolen. It’s tucked away with the others behind that wall.
“I wish I could see what you do.”
“You found them. Now let’s get out of here before anyone realizes we’re gone.”
He’s still in there. He’s still human, and I have his heart now. I can fix him.
“This is a lesson you’ll have to see to the end. Are you sure you want to begin?”
“You’re soaking wet,”
“I thought you said you were just a man?”
Why does fucking me make him sad?
“I’m sorry, little shadow. I think too much,”
“No secrets are as terrible as the ones we cannot speak.”
“I want you to feel everything up here. The wind between your fingers—the way your heart will rush when you're here with me.”
