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Beautiful, vulgar, seductive, and dripping with pleasures I’ve never experienced. Two women in my embrace, two heavy breaths on my chest. I cannot remember their names. The unruly sun pierces the calm, and birdsong heralds the night’s end. I will lie in bed all day, wrapped in the limbs of bright, glaring strangers. But my home is the night and the soft meeting of lips to lips. My eyes drift closed, and with the man’s beautiful voice in my mind, I dream of a starry sky.
His face is an expressionless mask. “What happened to me? I don’t think you understand.” He leans closer. “I don’t think I like you very much, and I never have.” He seems to hesitate for a moment, and his fingers tighten into fists. “From what I can tell now, trash is a perfectly accurate description.” There it is. The blow I’ve been waiting for all along.
Mordred flashes me a dark smile. “Oh, I know. And you are going to help me do it, Nia.” Mordred stares at the sky, looking lost in thought. “I see things in dreams, and sometimes, I dream of you. There’s a silver-eyed man you want to rescue from Auberon.” His sharp gaze lands on me. “And I’m the only one who can help you, my daughter.”