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“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.
When I awoke from my sleep, I braced myself, waiting for the familiar starburst of pain to flare through my right hand.
I spent a full second feeling sorry for Carrion,
but then I remembered how annoying he was, and my pity went away.
After that he cut down to one letter a year. Even Danya wrote to you.
“So many letters,” he mused. “And yet none of them reached me.”
He’d called me a Fae warrior. He’d known they were my shadows, blotting out the suns.
but I recalled his words all too well. “Do you not bow before a king, creature?”
his mouth forming a disapproving line as he upended it and a stream of sand poured out of it onto the floor. It kept coming and coming…
turning it upside down, gaze locked stoically on me while he waited for the sand to be done pouring out of his footwear.
a feral snarl worked free from his throat. It was the sound the hellcats made as they prowled the dunes outside of the walls of the Third at night.
He hadn’t seen what had happened. I would let him discover his new ink the same way he had let me discover mine.
beneath my skin and found only the quicksilver, whispering softly, calm as a slow-flowing river. Run. Run. Run. Run…
the connection with Tal feel like?” I gritted my teeth, reaching the bottom of the stairs. I turned right. “A leash.”
“Your Majesty.” The greeting was sweet as rotten fruit.
and failing to pretend that I was unmoved by the gesture. “Thank you, little one.”
“Who’s Carrion?” I almost laughed. In another life, gods almighty, they would have relied upon each other, those two males.

