“I feel like I can breathe again,” she said, wishing she could feel this calm without being frozen. “Like I’d been drowning so long, I’d forgotten what oxygen feels like.”
Luc preferred fighting in the traditional Holdfast style that involved an enormous flaming sword that he could transmute into two smaller flaming swords.
“Fuck off,” she said. “I didn’t know you could swear.” He sounded amused. Her jaw clenched, and she turned and told him to fuck off in three more languages.