Brimstone (Fae & Alchemy, #2)
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Read between November 18 - November 23, 2025
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Boom. Boom. Boom. I wanted to scream. My runes were burning through my skin again, all the way down to the bone.
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The stronger the aura, the bigger the lie, and right now, you’re lighting up my office like a torch.
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Oh
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now it made me feel like crawling out of my own skin when anyone showed the slightest bit of care for me.
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I even told him about Edina’s warning that I needed to find her book in the libraries at Cahlish.
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Bruhhhhh
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she’d told me not to breathe a word of it to Fisher, but she hadn’t said anything about enlisting the help of a vampire lord.
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UNLESS SHHE MEANT THE VAAMPIIRE LORD
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“She wasn’t repeating phrases? It didn’t seem like she was talking to someone who wasn’t there?”
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I squint
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His face had remained blank, but he’d known all of this. He’d chosen not to say anything about it, and I knew why.
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He is killing me. didd he not leearn
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“I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but you’re only the second person I’ve sired.” He waited, watching me. Expecting me to react somehow?
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IT WA FOLEY WHO LEFT
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What Taladaius was offering me was a kindness.
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I HOPE SO
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“I think I’d like that.” At that, he returned my grin. “In that case, you’d better call me Tal.”
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“The plan. Why didn’t you tell me what came after the hall?” Seven. “Because I knew… you wouldn’t like it,” I grunted.
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Five. “Fisher?” Four. “Fisher, why are we sprinting straight for that window?”
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LMAOOO
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“Pick up your fucking feet, Your Highness,” I snarled. One. I threw him out of the window.
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Im ded
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giving her a broad smile. “Apologies, madam. We had a little argument with gravity. Looks like gravity won.”
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Bruh
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I had Swift’s ass in my face for at least thirty seconds, which were thirty seconds I would have to remember to blot from my memory once all of this was done.
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LMAOOO
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A pang of something spasmed in my chest, but I pushed it away, for once annoyed with myself
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the vault breaker Vorath Shah hadn’t been looking at Carrion when he’d bolted. The stranger had been looking right at me.
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Oh fuck
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Lorreth was with Carrion in the training hall, attempting to whip him into shape,
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Uh no????? He left too??
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But I still have ultimate power over this entire court. Have you thought that maybe they should be worried about me?”
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something dark and intrigued glittering in his pale gray eyes. “I have found myself wondering that question, actually,”
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“Folded to represent one of Yvelia’s rare breeds. They’re called stargazers.”
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This is actually important information
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know exactly to whom I speak. King Killer. Day’s End. The Last Tide. Namebreaker—”
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:0
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I felt it, too: a crushing force against the back of my neck that wanted me to bow, kneel, crawl for the male sitting at the end of the table.
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“What…?” He looked down in confusion. “I…” “I stabbed you,”
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“Sil… ver,” the vampire wheezed. “That blade was never… silver.”
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What in the time travel talk
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“Silver tipped. It won’t kill you, but you are not going to enjoy the next few hours.
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There was a twenty-foot hole in the side of Ammontraíeth. And I had put it there.
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Oops
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He was a merchant, too. A purveyor of all kinds of bizarre and interesting goods.
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Ohhhh that guy
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“I say we torture the location out of him and then dispose of him.” Thum. Thum. Thum. Shah’s pulse was as lazy as could be.
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The corpse’s canines were far too long to have belonged to a human. Carrion saw the dead Fae’s teeth, too.
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Aaaaand I was right. It was bad. Really, really, really bad. “Fuck.”
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Geralt moment
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His eyes were pale blue
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Its like everyone has blue eyyes
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“That dagger you stabbed me with. I know it well. I know its owner even better, and he wouldn’t have been parted from it without a fight.
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Is the foley?
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I saw the shock ripple over his features. “No. No, you’re not… That’s not possible,” he whispered.
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“A wolf never becomes a leech,” the vampire finished.
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It is him
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“Hello, Foley. It’s been too long. I can’t tell you how good it is to see you, brother.”
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SO he WASNT the otheer cloaked
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Gods, even being eaten by Morthil in the maze hadn’t been this painful.
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Not this time, when the magic of Malcolm’s cursed maze wouldn’t bring me back from the dead.
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then… could you possibly kill me instead? This… really sucks.” Gods, how was he still talking?
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I found him. Boom. Boom. Boom.”
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This boom 3 times HAS to mean something
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but it wasn’t even reacting. At least not how it should have been. It was almost as though—
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To kill a queen, you will need to visit the darkest of all places.
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“She will tear away your soul and feed on it for decades!”
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“Ahh, I get it now,” Carrion groaned, observing the horror of it all. “I’m already in the nightmare, aren’t I?”
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Lmao
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His cat eyes glowed unnaturally. “But I certainly haven’t broken it.”
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I just now realized he is the cat
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“I swear I know that smell.” Carrion swayed, pressing his hand against the wall for support. “It’s so familiar.”
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“No.” I shook my head. “I don’t want it.” “Is a dead person talking to you right now?” Carrion asked.
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“Oh, good,” he said in a high-pitched voice. “I thought that was just me.”
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“Do you know what it feels like to be burned alive?” she seethed. Sadly, I nodded. “I do, Merelle. And I’m sorry.”
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I clinked my cup against his. “You’re welcome, Swift.” We both downed the concoction and immediately began seizing.
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Fuck