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This place and these people see me as expendable, and I intend to prove them wrong. I’m going to live.
“You intrigue me.” He steps closer, making my breath catch and filling my nose with that strange but intoxicating scent of his. “And I don’t think you’re as weak as you let on.”
“Unbound. The fifth affinity. Mender and the breaker. Dangerous, powerful, and essential.”
“I mark these words in secret, for the tri-emperors have deemed the truth too dangerous to be known. I refuse to let the truth be destroyed. The real story is one of betrayal, love, destruction, and creation. It’s a story that centers around the most powerful to ever claim the title of unbound: a story of Lorkan Grace. The truth they wish to hide is how a man seen as a hero single-handedly led to the death of thousands upon thousands, nearly breaking our world in two.”
But the most dangerous things are always the ones we want the most, aren’t they?
“Unbound... You have freed me from my prison. I was once known as Typhon, first heir to the water throne and ruler of the tides. I owe you a debt, and you may name your price.”
“Swear to seek truth where there is deception, to bring balance where there is chaos, and to remember what others have forgotten. I ask that you use the unbound gift to mend the wounds your kind have wrought, not to drive them deeper.”
“Fragile princess? Fuck, no. You’re deadly, Nessa. You’ve proven that several times over.
Maybe we’re both a little reckless, a little broken. Maybe that’s why we keep circling each other, unable to fully connect, unable to fully let go.
“Avoiding the blade at your throat only makes it slice deeper,”
“Raith,” I say, my voice surprisingly steady. “I don’t know if you can hear me, but I swear this oath to you now. I swear I’ll do everything I can to help you. To protect you like you’ve protected me.” The words come from somewhere deep inside me, pulled forth by instinct and desperation. “Your life is my life. Your fight is my fight.”
“But sometimes the universe gives us what we need in the cruelest ways possible.”
Perhaps we are both born of catastrophe, forged in tides and flames we never wanted but learned to harness nonetheless.
