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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” —The Tempest, William Shakespeare
Emotions painted the blood. Happiness. Anger. Sorrow. Lust. Each gave off its own energy.
Humans were not good at taming their feelings. They felt everything so rudely, right out in the open, with no awareness of how their reactions might affect those with finer senses.
“They’re going to… destroy her, you know? It has already… been seen. This court will… fall… with her inside it.”
Uh oh
And he could have his reasons, so long as none of them involved him harboring any sort of hope that Saeris was going to confess her undying love for him. That wasn’t happening.
Yeah, hes not sharing
“What do you think I’m doing?” I snarled. “I’m saving the fucking fox!”
“And the day you save me on a battlefield, I’ll put on a dress and dance a fucking jig.”
“Well, I suppose if no one else is going to say it, then I will. You look downright fuckable, Saeris Fane.”
Oh Carrion
“I can’t help it if he doesn’t want to live.”
“Excuse me?” I couldn’t stop myself. My indignation erupted from me before I could reel it back. “I assure you, I am not.”
Gasp
You can own your fantasies with me, Little Osha. There is nothing in this realm or the next that I won’t give to you if you desire it. All you ever need do is ask.
“No more maker and made bullshit,” he agreed. “But how about… friends?”
Adorable
“Pick up your fucking feet, Your Highness,”
“Because, no matter what.…” Lorreth said under his breath. “A wolf never becomes a leech,” the vampire finished.
“Then tell me, Joshin. You filled me with enough venom to take down three horses… but do you scent any fear on me? Do you think I am afraid to face my demons? I’ve faced them before. I know them all by name. I’ve conquered them and bent them to my will more times than the sun has risen over Yvelia in my lifetime. I’ll face your nightmares if I have to, and I will still be the most frightening thing prowling around in the dark.”
Hot
“Do you ever wake up sometimes… and think… ‘Gods, wouldn’t it be nice if I hadn’t just gone toe-to-toe with a scorpion demon from hell?’” Carrion croaked.
Fuck, I just ached for her. I wanted her here, next to me. I wanted to hold her; the fact that she wasn’t in my arms right now felt like the greatest injustice that had ever been inflicted upon me. There was no breathing my way past it.
What a romantic
Her fire keeps others warm in the cold dark. It is her strength, not her weakness. Being around her reminds you that you’re alive.”
Hearing him speak this way? To me? Having him love me like this? It healed me. I wouldn’t have been able to let anyone else do it. The intensity of the emotions I experienced whenever I was with him would have terrified the hell out of me. I would have run.
“Twelve hundred and twenty-three.” Elroy’s whisper echoed off the walls.
Ooof
I was crying. When I brushed my tears away, my fingers came away coated in silver.
Crying quicksilver
I had been born into the light, but my salvation had been waiting for me in the dark.
“And what does the connection with Tal feel like?” I gritted my teeth, reaching the bottom of the stairs. I turned right. “A leash.”
Oh
I had always made it a rule to follow a cat. Particularly a black cat.
Good rule
But the bond that binds you both will be strongest if she places this book into your hands.
Tearing up, it's okay
I have no regrets. I love you. I am proud of you. Now give her back the book.
Sobbing
“It’s true,” Carrion said. “She was as feral as a hellcat. She would slink through any open window and take a nap when she could.”
“IT’S CALLED BRIMSTONE. It isn’t like our blood, exactly. It is what keeps a fire sprite alive, though,” Lorreth said.
“Would that I could, Osha. Would that I could.”
Well that cant be right
Even I was aware that the register of my voice dipped whenever we were alone. The dark, predatory part of me pulled at its fetters, wishing to be free and held unaccountable for the acts of depravity it would commit without the steady hand of restraint holding it by the collar. Mine.
Hot
Consider a sixth. Only the golden-toothed wolf can be trusted.
“And how in all five hells would I do that, Osha? I’d have better luck trying to domesticate one of your hellcats.”
Haha
Because I’ve got you.”
My heart
He did have me, didn’t he? He was the anchor that kept me from drifting away. Even here, in this horrible place, he hadn’t left my side.
“We need brimstone.”
Bitch better be joking
He knew that, to control his people, he had to control the information they had access to. Hide the truth from people, and you kept them in the dark. Burn the books, and you got to rewrite history and the future.
Hmmm
“It feels like trying to make sand flow backward in an hourglass. It feels like being surrounded by people and being the only one who can’t find the air in the room. It’s drowning on dry land. It’s the hollow ache of something that you know, from that moment on, will always be missing. It is a pain so acute and incurable that poets, pirates, and politicians alike die from it. And it never ends.”
It does... It feels like all of that
