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October 28, 2024 - May 8, 2025
“That’s funny,”
“I found it really helps me focus if I imagine my heel stepping into your chest.”
“That’s f...
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“I imagined the same scenario last night.”
If hellraisers, the not-so-affectionate nickname for necromancers, delved too deeply into the darker side of their magic, they could become liches.
Necromancers lived roughly two centuries. It was just enough time to learn enough dark magic to become a problem.
I bet warlocks walk into traffic looking at you.”
“I’ve missed you. I need you. I want to see your eyes light up when I unveil that dead language for you. I’ve never wanted anything more in my life.”
“I can’t stand being so far from you. If something ever happened to you, I’d crawl into your grave to take my place beside you.”
I don’t want to win like this. I’m so tired of trying to beat you, Atticus.
“If you really—” It was impossible to choke out the words. Loved me. “—felt that way, you never would have left me. Can you explain that? Will you stop being a damned coward and tell me why I wasn’t good enough to be your friend?!”
“Take it back or make me believe it!”
She felt very little romantically, and it was her greatest frustration that only Atticus had ever managed to bring out such rampant want in her.
“How far should we go to convince you?”
“I may not be a good man, but I’ll be good to you. And only you.”
“I swear, if you don’t have this conversation with me, I will propose to you on this plane. In front of everyone. With my family ring. And everyone is going to stare at us when you say no—”
It was one thing to have an impossible dream hidden in your heart. It was something entirely different to have it ripped from you.
Triumph was sometimes lonesome, but she thought fondly of it, despite the darkness at the edges of her memory.
