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You are my mate. I’m in love with you.
“Come now, Osha. Where else would an acolyte kneel to worship but at the altar of his god?”
“Thaaat’s it. Good girl. Ride it out.”
All libraries contained magic. Even libraries that didn’t specialize in such things. Because what was a book, if not a portal into another realm, another time, another life even.
“I could spend the rest of eternity right here and die happy,”
Don’t thank them, came Fisher’s low, resonant reply. Thank me. I’m the one who’s about to make you scream.
“I had no idea what you would mean to me. I had no idea what I would do to keep you safe. When I close my eyes, you are all I fucking see, Saeris Fane. I could be dead in the ground five thousand years and the frosts could have taken my bones, and still no other male will ever have loved another female the way that I love you.”
“Sweet fucking mercy,” he panted. “Kill me. Sit on my face and ride my tongue until I fucking die. I can’t take it anymore.”
“Breathe, love. I’ve got you.”
“Hush, love. I’m not going anywhere. I’m right here.”
I am an Alchemist.
Well, I wouldn’t believe that. Not. Any. More. “I stand before you.” I spoke out loud this time, no longer afraid. “I am worthy.”
My prince of shadows.
When he loved, it was with everything he had.
“You think I’m above tickling you?” he asked in a deadly serious tone. I looked him dead in the eye. “Go on. Do it. I’m not ticklish.”
“Every part. I love all of you.” He blew a dark curl out of his eyes. “I’d spend the fortunes of the universe to protect you. I’d drain the seas dry. Fell every tree. I would sacrifice the sun from the fucking sky and surrender the stars, too, if I could. But those things aren’t mine to give. All I have is my life. It isn’t much, but I’d spend it and consider the price small if it meant keeping you safe.”
For you, gods blessed. Thank you for loving my boy. —E
Edina’s book.
My son, I close my eyes and dream of the universe, and there are such events that stretch out before my mind like way markers upon a road. They are firm and undeniable in their existence. But there are pathways that veer from that road along the way. Side streets that might lead a player on the grand stage of fate off in another direction. There are many of these such diversions on the road that lies before you, and many that lie before your mate, as well. Today, she stands at a fork in the road. I see the way before you both, and I see you tread the path together. But the bond that binds you
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“Good girl, Saeris.”
“My name is Foley Briarstone, and I have come to be of service to my queen.”
But sometimes, if you wanted to… you’re allowed to soften, Saeris. You’re allowed to stop baring your teeth at the world and take a breath. Because I’ve got you.”
came to show you that sometimes, it’s the most beautiful things that are deadliest.
“I was actually just going to take some clippings of the plants out—”
“You want me to stay. You missed me.”
“I shouldn’t tell you this, since you seem blissfully unaware of the power you hold over me, but… I will give you whatever you want, Saeris Fane. Always. No matter what it costs me.”
still. “I’m yours to command, Queen Saeris,” I whispered into her hair.
The way she looked at me made me want to do better. To be better. Every day of my life, I was going to have to work my absolute fucking hardest to deserve her love and respect. I wasn’t afraid of the challenge.
I love you, Little Osha. I love you, too.
You cannot eradicate magic from a city. Once it takes root within a community, it never leaves. It will find a way to thrive, one way or another. You just didn’t care to look for it.’” Something else had come back to me, too. My heart started to race. “And what you said about the sigils in that book! ‘The strongest magic is circular. Like a wheel. It is the symbol of forever, the beginning and the end of everything. It carries magic on a loop, amplifying it, giving it strength.’”
Zilvaren is the biggest piece of spellwork ever created.”
“Tarsarinn,” he said. “It means… redemption.”
For the first time in Yvelian history, a god sword had entrusted itself into the hands of someone it wasn’t bonded to. Because Kingfisher loved me. I had come here to save him… and that was good enough for his sword.
“Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate, I hereby call you by your true name. I declare all oaths you have sworn null and void. Rise, Khydan Graystar Finvarra, in honor of the name you were given at birth! Rise up and fight!”
“I’m sorry.”
But it’s too late, Osha. He’s already gone.”
I needed to comfort her, but what comfort could I be, with my own tears streaming down my face?
“That cursed fox. It plagued us day and night while we waited for you, Alchemist,”
and he’d never left me.
She cut clean through Belikon De Barra’s neck and severed his head from his body in one fell swoop.
THATS MY GIRL
“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.”
“The fox’s soul is still with you. It is currently sitting at your feet.
“He isn’t just a fox. He’s family.
He was alive. Alive! Onyx squirmed so hard I nearly dropped him.
Diaxis.
I FUCKING HATE dragons.
Khydan
Well. They shouldn’t have touched you if they’d wanted to live, should they?
“Do you trust me?” he asked. “Yes. Always. Yes.”
“I love you, Saeris Fane.”
