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“My mother died when I was seven. She’d been sick for a long time. All my life actually. One day I went to wake her, and she was—cold. She’d slipped away in the night, no warning, no goodbyes. After that, I was afraid to go to sleep. I wasn’t scared of being dead, but I was worried my father or I might slip away like that and leave the other all alone. So he’d hold my hand until I fell asleep, so I’d know he was there. You looked lonely just now, so I thought…”
“I don’t know. It’s nothing. Sorry.”
“If you don’t want me to kiss you, you should say so now,” he said.
Ahhhh
“Why are you crying?” he finally asked.
“Because I’m lonely, and kissing you, and you don’t even like me.”
“Why do you think I was kissing you?” he finally asked in a tight voice.
“Because I’m here.”
“Why’d you ki...
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“You made me feel like the parts of me that aren’t useful still deserve to exist. Like I’m not just all the things I can do.”
Oh I am crying
“What the fuck, Ferron?”
“Ah, back to surnames, I see,” he said coolly.
Ahhh the banter
“It’s not any of your fucking business.”
omg he’s sooo hot and cold
“Fuck off, Marino.” His voice was deadly soft. “I’m not your pet. I don’t need you.”
Damn
Ilva’s expression remained wary. “You know,” she said slowly, “I can only keep Luc and his unit away from the worst fights if we know which ones they’ll be.”
Ewww I don’t like this.
Helena turned, then gave a brittle laugh. “You know, I just realised, if I succeed, you’ll control Ferron the same way you use Luc to control me. It makes me feel rather sorry for him.”
Ilva didn’t look at her. “Well, he’ll deserve it more than you do.”
Yeah I don’t like her
“I used to think it wasn’t fair that all the real wars were over before I was born. Used to be afraid I’d be one of the Principates everyone forgot, because nothing happened.”
“I’d do anything to have that now. I can’t taste anything now except blood and smoke, and I don’t feel anything except when I’m on fire. The stories made it sound so good. Fighting for a cause. Being a hero.” He shook his head. “Why does everyone pretend it’s anything like that?”
“Why aid us, then?” she asked. “If you don’t think we can win.”
His expression grew mocking. “Don’t you think you’re worth it?”
“Oh yes, your rose in a graveyard,” she said, lip curling. “Was th...
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“Who else?” he asked, his voice empty, just a touc...
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“Aurelia, pe...
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He smiled. “Right. Quite forgot...
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Ahhh i love him so much
“Don’t die, Kaine,”
“There are far worse fates than dying, Marino.”
“I know. But that one you don’t come back from.”
He gave a bitter laugh. “All right, then, but only be...
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She drew a shivering breath and reached up, her fingers wrapping around his wrist. “I can’t let you die.”
He shook his head. “They don’t let me die.”
Ugh my heart aches
“I must say, Marino, you’ve ended up being quite expensive.”
“So sorry I wasn’t the puppet you wanted,” Helena said bitterly, standing.
“You always have to come back,” she said. “All right? Don’t die. Promise—”
“All right…” he said, “but only because you asked.”
Forget every word you’ve ever heard about honour in combat. The honour is surviving.”
He shifted his stance, eyes narrowing. “What’s wrong?”
“I’m tired,”
“I’m tired of this war. I’m tired of trying to save people and watching them die anyway, or saving them only to watch them die later—in a worse way. It’s the same cycle, over and over. I don’t know how t...
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“I thought you’d do anything fo...
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“The price keeps getting higher,” she said quietly. “I don’t know if ...
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That bitterness in his eyes—she finally understood it. He had been waiting for her betrayal.
She wanted him to know. It was real. For her, it had always been real.
But his eyes… She could tell— He was hers. The realisation broke her heart.
“I—” His voice failed him. “I—I would have been gentler—if I’d known.”
Ugh i love him
“I didn’t really want you to be,”
Ahhhhh okaaaaay
She pulled him into her arms; he gripped her close and sobbed.
“I can’t—I can’t—” he kept saying over and over.
“I can’t—I can’t do this again—” he finally gasped out. “I can’t care for someone again. I can’t take it.”
Ugh my heart… i cant stop crying
“There was no time to train you for the assignment. We thought it best to let the deal run its course and—collect the pieces afterwards. It made you more convincing.”
“Well, he saw through you both. I was the only fool in the end. But you got what you wanted. Lucky you, I guess.”
