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True insanity was denying the facts before your naked eye because they didn’t fit into your worldview.
Tonight, we sleep. Tomorrow, we take over the worlds.”
Words were keys to endless doors, each door the book to a fantastic escape.
“Always is just such a funny word, given that you’ve spent this entire life cycle sending me away, convinced I wasn’t real. Yet, the word still fits. Time has its cracks, its regrets, its imperfections. But you and I? We’re always.”
Recasting my memories to understand he’d been a reality rather than a fiction was a feat that couldn’t be conquered in a day, but there were three things I knew to be sure. The first was that Caliban, the gods, Heaven, Hell, and every pantheon of lore were beautifully and terribly real. The second was that I had never—not for a moment—been alone. And the third was that we could lose the love we’d fought for lifetimes to realize if we didn’t make it out of here alive.
Life has one final surprise for us yet, it seems. I owe you gratitude, both for what you’ve done, and for what’s to come,”
T-H-E-N I nodded along encouragingly. I knew these letters. S-T-A-R-T My blood pressure kicked up as I watched the intensity in her face. W-A-R.
“Let’s give them hell,” I said, returning the smile. “We’ll give them more than Hell,” he said. “We’ll give them what Hell stood for.”
Rage was actionable. Sorrow could be healing. Hate was not a useful emotion.
“Because you’re a mortal playing the game of gods.”
“What the hell?” Anath demanded, teeth clenched, face reddening with indignation. “I think,” Dorian responded, “you mean: What the Hades?”
“You are sovereign in and of yourself. Your existence has meaning. Not because anyone else grants it to you, but because you deserve it. And maybe that’s a journey we’re both on.”
“You’re an angel without a kingdom,” I said quietly. “I’m a girl caught in a myth. Maybe we’re both orphans. But right now, I need you as much as you need me.”
“The antichrist is the catalyst for the end of the world, and I’ll be damned if I’ve been shoved into being the vessel for a goddamn baby. Consider this my rebirth. Here the fuck I am.”
