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about the hot water I’d found myself in.
I couldn’t help but wonder if she counted herself among that number.
ALCHEMIST
“I’m Saeris Fane, apprentice to the Undying Queen’s master glass worker. I hail from the third spoke in the blessed wheel of the sacred Silver City.”
the ends of his ink-black waves dripping beads of water onto the pages of the open book that he was reading.
“It’s rude to stare at a male’s hardware,”
Ren grumbled, giving them a cursory nod. Kingfisher stuck out a hand and flipped all seven of them off as he stormed by.
Layne isn’t going to let this go until you’ve been given the cliff notes,
before. She sat with me and ate in my rooms, subdued and silent.
“It’s because I bite.”
“He’s not himself at the moment. It might be a while before he stops behaving like a spoiled brat.”
the Alchemists lived very short lives. They often went mad and killed themselves.”
I have to say, I’m a little scandalized to discover that they’re mine, though.”
“It’s big enough to make you scream and then some.”
“Maybe. But I’m not a man. I’m a Fae male.”
“Maybe the issue is that you asked me a question about my cock like a hungry little bitch in heat and didn’t ask me something that mattered.”
“Fuck—you—” “There you go again. Hungry, needy little bitch in heat, begging to be fucked…” he taunted.
“That’s academic. You did.”
And then I punched him square in the mouth.
SWALLOW
It was the kind of dress that would bring most men to their knees. I fucking hated it.
He wore an inordinate amount of armor—twice as much as usual.
I breathed in sharply, inhaling cheese.
his huge frame just… everywhere.
“It’s Saeris. My name. Call me that or nothing at all.”
“Nothing at all? I like the sound of that. Come here and look at this, Nothing At All.”
he jerked his chin toward the knife that he’d magicked into being at my thigh.
Let’s see if we can bind this bone with it and turn it into something useful.” We couldn’t.
“Rule number three. Do not make me do any physical activity,” he snarled. “What part of ‘I am hungover’ did you not fucking understand!”
“Look into my eyes. No, wait. Why don’t you listen to my heartbeat, Kingfisher, and tell me if I’m lying.”
I shivered as I watched him descend into the quicksilver, my chest tight, my hands clenching into fists even tighter.
His blood said he was Hayden.
“I’ll happily kiss all of your aches and pains better for you once we strike camp. I’ve been told my mouth has healing properties. Especially when administered between a pair of thighs.”
Fisher’s infuriating grin was the only part of his face visible beneath the dark cowl of his hood.
“It’d be a real shame to have to pinch you, but I’m getting bored, and this rabid animal keeps showing me its teeth.”
Kingfisher’s mouth ticked imperceptibly.
Kingfisher flipped off the gods as he passed them, not even breaking his stride.
Carrion was here, too, sprawled out on a chair, sitting by the fire. A small plate rested on his stomach; the fucker was eating a fat slice of cake, unfazed by the tension hanging thick in the air.
Her hair was a stark blond, almost white, her eyes a vivid shade of lilac. She was beautiful in a way that hurt to look at. “I can’t tell what they’re whispering about, but one by one, they’ve all been to talk to her. Some of them have been arguing with her. She punched that one,”
the bank of the Darn,
“Fine! Have it your way, darling!” Malcolm called.
“You are extra fucking miserable today.
“Because she is moonlight. The mist that shrouds the mountains. The bite of electricity in the air before a storm. The smoke that rolls across a battlefield before the killing starts. You have no idea what she is. What she could be. You should call her Majesty.”
“She just has a terrible sense of irony.”
“Well. Our runes are complicated. But yes, they do have meanings. This one,” he said, holding up his left hand, “means vengeance.” He held up his other hand. “This one means justice.”
She is oxygen in our lungs.
“We are one thing. One weapon.”
“Be unrelenting and unmerciful in the face of the wicked dead,”
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What did—ohfffUCK!
