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This was the last time she’d be in my arms until the moment I came calling to collect on our bargain and everything from her expression to the dark storm twisting in her grey eyes only punctuated that pronouncement.
She didn’t care if I was alone in this world and I’d been a fool to believe she might have.
NO
smoke tumbled up the back of my throat as the Dragon within me stirred.
Kink activated
I knew far more about her kind than I suspected even she did and I knew that she was hiding a great deal of herself from the eyes of the world.
“Do you ever fully shift?” I asked her and those storm cloud eyes whipped to mine, thunder flashing through them which almost masked her flinch. “No,” she replied darkly, only deepening my suspicions.
WHAT
Her postured tightened and I knew she could feel what I wanted. Look at me. Just fucking look, you coward.
All i knOw is pain
Her hand fell from my arm more slowly, her nails biting into my flesh then fingertips burning a path right down to my wrist, palm, fingers… Then she was gone.
UGH
I’d had nothing and no one in that darkness. Until there had been her.
I turned the entirety of the Void upon him and my lip curled back as he cried out and staggered another step toward me, reaching for me as if I might offer him sanctuary instead of death.
“You are not my master,” I told him venomously. “You will never control me again.” Kaiser gripped my arm, his eyes blazing, burning with want. “More,” he rasped.
Kai be COOL
Kaiser gasped, his muscles bunching around me, our embrace like one of lovers instead of enemies. He staggered back, his fingers skimming my face as he reached for me, but he was already falling toward the sheer edge of the ridge. “Silka la vin,” he croaked a laugh, a beautifully tragic freedom in his eyes. “Killer of mine.”
EXCUSE ME WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
I rushed to the edge, finding my hand reaching for him and my tears coming thicker as I spotted him falling, hitting a ledge of black rocks halfway down the cliff. He didn’t move. Broken. Dead.
WHAT
Her fingers brushed my jaw and a moment hung between us as that point of contact made my skin burn with far more potency than my Dragon fire had ever claimed.
More words stuck in my throat, the ache in my chest a visceral thing, the pulse in my ears pounding so violently that it was all I could do to keep my eyes on her as this divide formed between us, a chasm so deep neither of us could cross it. But still her hand was on my skin, the heat of her touch driving into me, making me regret every word I never spoke to her, making me want to take every moment back and replay them again because I hadn’t realised we’d been stealing them all along.
I was a Dragon and my kind hoarded treasure so of course I’d been capturing each memory with her and savouring it for the precious gift it had been.
BYE
Another roar parted my lips, this one bound in pain and betrayal, this act too heinous to endure, this fate too cruel to claim me twice. I begged the stars to end it, for Taurus to strike me down or Capricorn to cleave me from this endless existence which held nothing but pain and grief but they ignored my calls as always. The stars had forsaken me as thoroughly as she had.
N O
“Your death is mine!” I reminded her in a raged yell which made the crumbling ruins that surrounded us quake. “It’s mine, Vesper, and when I come to claim it from you, you will remember this day because I will carve every piece of this betrayal into your body and make you watch while I burn it from your bones.”
“My fate is coming for me, Bastian,” she said roughly, her magic encasing me entirely and binding me to the destiny I feared more than any other, the fact that it came at her hands only making the pain of it worse. “And no man will ever turn me from it again.”
The sound of my soul reawakening. From the very depths of my being, a fault line had ruptured and the true creature I was spilled out at long last.
AHHHHHH
I was reborn, a newly created being lurching toward an uncharted future. But the only thing I was truly aware of wanting up there was her.
fell quiet at the knowledge that I would die alone though. Especially as I had never truly lived. But at least I could feel the full force of life, even if only for a moment.
