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It isn’t disease that’s contagious in my ward, Captain. It’s dissent. Anarchy and rebellion spread like a wildfire. And what do you do with a fire? You blockade it. Trap it behind a wall. Give it nowhere else to go until it burns itself out and dies a quiet death.
Do you know much about metalwork, Captain? I do. It’s under the most unbearable conditions that the sharpest, most dangerous weapons are forged. And we are dangerous, Captain. She’s turned us all into weapons. That is why she won’t suffer my people to live.”
“Your personality is trash.”
“That your body is betraying you in other ways. That I can smell you, Little Osha, and I’m thinking about drinking the sweet nectar you’re making for me straight from the fucking cup.”
As soon as Belikon’s warriors had moved off down the hall, I darted out of my hiding place and skirted along the edge of the hall,
but wouldn't they hear her heart and know a human as near?
“Urgh! Do you have to be so difficult?” His eyes danced. “It isn’t mandatory, but I do enjoy it.”
“There’s every way,” Fisher rumbled, his eyes darkening. “I’d know the smell of you anywhere. On anyone. I’d know it blind and in the dark. Across a fucking sea. I’d be able to scent you—”
Kingfisher towered over me like the god of death himself. His chest heaved, his eyes flashing with green, and silver, and murder. “You all right?” he panted.
as he kicked open a door and carried me through it.
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.”
“Don’t you dare die on my watch, Saeris Fane! Fisher will never forgive me if his sole reason for living is torn to pieces on her first fucking battlefield.”
But fuck Danya. Danya was the worst.
“If it were up to me, we wouldn’t spend another night without each other again.”
When you meet them, don’t forget to tell them I’m the one you worship on your knees.”
And sometimes, that’s just how things were supposed to be. There were moments that were gifts, meant to be cherished only for as long as you could remember them.
but I choose to believe that all things come from the same place when life begins. I have hope that they return to the same place when it ends.
Fisher hooked his pinkie finger around mine
“You’re right. I apologize. I’m just a little on edge right now. I’m not my best self.”
“For them, I’m willing to take a chance. If you truly accept Fisher as your mate, then you must agree for the thread of your life to be severed from the tapestry of the universe. Once you do, none of us may affect your future. We won’t be able to see you at all, nor will my brothers and my sister be able to interfere with timelines or events that affect you, either. You’ll be on your own.”
