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“Even filthy and tired, you’re still beautiful.”
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.
There are those among our ranks that might pretend to be your friend, but often they’re hiding knives behind their smiles, ready to sink them into your back. You’d do well to remember that.” As I followed after her, rushing to keep up, I couldn’t help but wonder if she counted herself among that number.
“There you go again. Hungry, needy little bitch in heat, begging to be fucked...” he taunted.
“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—”
“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.”
“I don’t want bright and happy,” he whispered roughly. “I want real.”
“Yes, a good secret. Very good. You want to stay. You want to save him. You must. You must.”
“If it were up to me, we wouldn’t spend another night without each other again.”
“Make me forget that I’ve ever suffered,” I commanded. “Make me forget that I will again.”
My soul was on fire, and I didn’t care if I burned for all eternity. So long as I was burning with him, then so be it.
He was a part of me. I sensed that in my bones. If I wanted him to be, he would be the axis around which I revolved. I would be his. Two counterparts, independent of one another.
Already whole, but together stronger than we could ever be apart.
We still had time.
“I came for a little hope.”
I remembered pieces of him, and all at once, and I remembered how to drown. I needed him like I needed air. I reached for him like I was reaching for the surface of a still, flat lake.
