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“You’re mine. You swore yourself to me. Now and after the war. I’m going to take care of you. I’m not going to let anyone hurt you. You don’t have to be lonely. Because you’re mine.”
She was locked in the dangerous embrace of Kaine Ferron, and it felt like home.
❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭
“No, but how are you able to spend a whole day in bed with me? Aren’t you a general or something? Don’t you have meetings, or crimes to commit?”
LOL
She reached out, her fingers brushing back his hair. “Don’t worry. I’m always going to come back to you.”
BITCH U BETTER
Helena pretended not to notice as she headed for the gate, but it only made his mood darken. Finally, she stopped. “What is it?” “Don’t go,” he said softly. “You know I have to.” He shook his head. “No, I don’t. They don’t care about you.”
HE'S RIGHT, STAY WITH HIM
You have one job, Marino, and that is to stay alive and intact so that Ferron can have his weekly proof of life.
And they're dangling her life in his face, just like they dangle Lucs in hers
“Penny, if I thought we’d all die, I wouldn’t be so afraid of losing. What they’ll do to us if we lose will be far worse than death.” She shook her head. “There will be nothing purifying about it.”
And this is why Penny ends up telling her she was right during part 1. Because you are all blind followers
His resonance hummed beneath her skin, following the pathway of her nerves and veins, mapping her. Not erotically, but in the same panicked way her own resonance sometimes flared when she was afraid someone was hurt and wanted to find the injury.
😭😭😭😭
“If I could run, I would have vanished while my mother was alive.” “Would you go now, if you could?” His eyes seemed to ripple with heat. “With you, I would.”
“I hate your hair like that,” he said, startling her. She looked up. “I could crop it instead.” He looked so offended that she laughed.
“I thought you said if I ever burned you—” He captured her hand and pulled her close. His other hand slid possessively up her throat, fingers tilting her head back, and he kissed her, long and deep, before he drew away to meet her eyes. “Call me, and I will come.”
Cries**
Helena would stand in the open-most part of the rooftop, and silent as a wraith, Amaris would drop from the sky, Kaine leaning over and snatching Helena up, and they’d be airborne, riding the wind, climbing over the buildings without being seen.
Frigging love birds
“You’re mine. You’re mine.” He’d repeat the words over and over. “Say it. Say you’re mine.”
“I promise, Kaine. I’m always going to be yours.”
“The Eternal Flame is not going to hurt me if you fail an assignment. They aren’t going to torture or endanger me to punish you. I’m not a hostage.
They would!!
“If the nullium were encased in ceramic, that would prevent the corrosion and biointerference. If you put a thin tube of it right through the wrist here”—she pressed her fingers against the space between the radius and ulna—“the
Of course you helped design this
“I’m going to take care of you. I promise, I’m always going to take care of you.”
And now shes saying it too...my HEART
Lila looked up and drew a deep breath, her chin trembling before she finally spoke. “I—I’m pregnant.”
“Being alive is not the same as living. I hope someday you’ll have a chance to realise the difference.”
The Maternal Condition: An In-Depth Study on the Science and Physiology of Gestation,
Is Pace the one taking care of Helena while pregnant?
As Luc began taking over leadership, Ilva’s health began a sudden and rapid decline as if all those years, she’d just been holding on until he was ready. Some days she was barely lucid.
Hes sucking the life out of her
I could use transmutation to make a really light mesh armour with a high tensile strength, and then use the compound to remove the resonance. You would wear it under your clothes.
:0
“I know your face too well.” He sighed. “You’re thinking you’ll have to kill me now, aren’t you? That I’m too much of a liability.”
This is stupud!!!
“What exactly is it that you think I do with all my time? I kill people. I order other people to kill people. I train people to kill people. I sabotage and undermine people so that they will be killed, and I do it all because of you. Every word. Every life. Because of you.”
I won’t kill them—but I will be done. You are my terms of service. The contract is void if you die.”
“You could—become a healer,” she finally said, straining to feel the sensation of his hand against hers. A smile ghosted at the corner of his mouth. “I hadn’t considered that.” “You should. You have a talent for it—although your bedside manner is terrible.”
Oh god...shes gonna die and he will raise the baby himself....please dont be true
“A trade, then? Is that what you’re proposing? Yourself—your cooperation—in exchange for Ferron’s safety?” Helena gave a tight nod. If Kaine had any idea what she’d come back to do, he probably would have ripped out his own talisman before letting her return.
They’d grow sick with fevers afterwards, as if suffering from some kind of poisoning, but it was effective, so she overlooked the side effects, believing them manageable until Crowther told her that two of her “subjects” had died.
Well she def got to know how that feels
“I think I’m going to try at least.” Crowther showed callous interest. “If you wish. If you kill Bayard, it will spare us a mouth to feed.”
God I hate him
Lila had thus far refused to “come out of quarantine,” and was still pretending to be contagious with bog cough.
This man gonna find out hes a dad after the birth
“I promised I’d do anything for you.” She curled her fingers into a fist. “Maybe you didn’t realise how far I was willing to go.” “Don’t say that,” he said, suddenly alert again. “Don’t make it all my fault. I thought you could heal him.”
IT FUCKING IS
Anyone who wanted to fight could fight, alchemist or not, adult or not, man or not. There was no time to train anyone. They didn’t even have weapons for them. There were boys and girls practising with sticks, trying to make themselves slingshots. No armour because there was none in their sizes.
Total suicide mission
They were battle fodder. They’d be slaughtered in minutes. But they would do that rather than allow necromancy.
So they rather everyone was dead then
He was the only means by which she could do anything meaningful, the only member of the Eternal Flame who listened to her at all. Yet he held her obedience at Kaine’s throat like a knife.
At this point you don't think you've done anything meaningful?
“I found you after a bombing. I had to watch them cut you open, trying to get the shrapnel out. You nearly died so many times on the operating table, I lost count. If you’d been an inch closer to the blast, that shrapnel would have gone through your heart. You want me to set a bomb, I will do it, but you will not touch it. Do you understand?”
This poor man
Someday, she promised herself, someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn’t stolen.
Don’t let this be the last time.
*rips heart and throws it away*
I’m going to take care of you. I’m always going to take care of you. He didn’t say it audibly, but she could hear it in the shifting of the air, the way his jaw moved when he mouthed the words.
*Stomps on heart*
“If I survive, I’m not going anywhere without you.”
Helena slipped her ring off, studying it. The mirroring was rubbing off. If she was arrested, she’d be searched, and any metal removed. That would include Kaine’s ring. “Would mo’lian’shi interfere with an entanglement?” she asked.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
“I really think you should tell Luc. He should know before this battle starts. That way if things go wrong, the Eternal Flame will know the importance of getting you to safety.” Lila was silent for a surprisingly long moment. “He already knows,” she finally said quietly, averting her eyes from Helena’s. “What?”
IM SORRY WHAT
Helena was struck dumb for several moments. “He’s known this whole time? That you’re pregnant, and I’m the one caring for you?”
Leave her to die
“Get out of Headquarters,” she said. “Take everything you can and go back to the off-site lab. I’ll send word if it’s safe to come back. I can’t explain now, but something’s about to go wrong.”
Shit
