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“Or would you prefer to stay here?” she asked calmly. “Alone and festering in the dark? Rotten scraps to eat and guards coming every morning to beat you?” At last, he spoke. “Is where you’re taking me worse?”
“I let you fuck me.” A tiny smirk played at the corner of Simon’s mouth. “And I thank you for that. I needed it.”
1) SIMON??? SMIRKING?????
2) toxic behavior but i still love him :(
“Don’t listen to him, sweet girl. It’s all right.” His voice shook. Tears rolled down his cheeks and into the beard Admiral Ravikant had kept so neatly trimmed. “It’s all right.”
“I never did understand what Varos saw in you,” she said. There was no malice in her voice, simply a bewildered curiosity.
LMAO love to see it
“I love you, my friend,” she whispered. “I have never not loved you.” She remembered the words he had given Rielle, how tender his face had been as he spoke them. “My light and my life,” she whispered, then pressed her mouth to his cheek.
And if she hid, when the world ended, she could live content inside the cocoon of her memories and pretend she heard nothing.
Oh ludivine,
He would lose her a thousand times over if it meant he would first have the chance to love her.
“Rise with the dawn, my brothers, my sisters, my friends! Rise with the light! With the sun at our backs, we meet our enemies without fear or despair or doubt! We know only the rage blooming bright in our hearts! The love for those we have lost! The love for the home that has been taken from us! And love for the day we know will come tomorrow, and the next, and the next, until the sun rises and looks down upon a world of peace at last!” —A speech delivered by Saint Katell of Celdaria to the elemental troops at the Battle
In a city of thousands, in a country of millions, he was utterly, irrevocably alone.
Im gonna cry is this how it ends?
“We can feel our fear. It is allowed. It is right, and it is human. Our blood will race, our knees will quake. But our hearts…”
“Our hearts will not fail us today,”
"our hearts will not fail us today"
Tell me,’ said Morgaine to her love, ‘will you think of me when I am gone? So far from you I must go, such a journey lies before me.’ And Morgaine wept furious tears, ashamed for him to see her, but Gilduin held her hands and kissed them, and looked upon her anguished face, and suddenly Morgaine felt at peace, for in Gilduin’s eyes was naught but love. ‘There is nothing in this world that I could look upon and not then think of you,’ he said, ‘for in you lies everything I have known, everything I am, everything I will be.’”
Damn
“I wish you had nothing of mine,” Eliana said through her teeth. Her cheeks burned with anger, and her heart ached in too many places. “Not my love, not my anger, not my memories. I wish you hadn’t seen what he did to me. I wish…”
“I wish I could hurt you as you hurt me,” she whispered. “I wish I didn’t want you still or care for you at all. I wish all I wanted was to help you find your power again.” She shook her head. Her voice teetered on the edge of something sharp. “But I want more than that. Even now, even after everything.”
She bowed her head to kiss his crown. “I’ll miss you,” she told him, not meaning to say it, and then a sob burst out of her, unexpected and savage. She could hardly breathe; tears seized her like fists.
They spilled inside her like knives warmed by fire. Hot steel glinting red, blades that slipped and sliced. He smelled of salt and smoke, murmured her name until she wore the syllables on her skin.
“I don’t love you,” she whispered fiercely against his skin. A moment passed. Then she felt Simon’s hand cup the back of her head, cradling her to him. His lips touched her brow. “I know,” he replied, his voice choked with sadness. “I don’t love you either.”
“I’m also trying to remember what it felt like, that first night we were together,” she whispered at last. “It was everything,” Simon answered. He heard the brittle sound of his voice as if he no longer belonged to his own body and was listening from somewhere distant, somewhere golden and warm within the light of their rising power. “You were everything that night. You were the entire world, and I was safe inside you. For once, I felt safe.”
"it was everything" HELP
“So did I,”
I’m sorry, little one. I was not always as I am now. I wish you could have known me when my heart was still whole.
“I love them.”
Your mind is a fascinating one. It holds so many dreams, even after months of living in darkness.”
The blade sliced clean through Ludivine’s neck.
Audric held her beloved face in his gaze and whispered, “Rielle, I love you.”
Eliana’s companion, the boy, burst open, and from the place where his head had been poured shining waves of black beetles.
OH MY GOD REMY
One image rose to the surface, clung fast amid the chaos he was making of her thoughts: Eliana, falling to her knees in agony. Eliana, radiant in battle. Eliana, kissing her cheek.
“I may be a monster,” Rielle said, the words thick with pain, “but I am no longer yours.”
Made of light, her daughter, and faltering not even once. What a fearless woman she had made.
Rielle strained to hear the sounds of Eliana fighting. How beautiful they were, like every song she had ever known.
And you must. Ludivine managed a few fragile words. Inside them was a fierce, sweeping love. It’s all right. Don’t be afraid.
The syllables had become precious to him. Eliana.
Eliana. Eliana. Eliana.
A Beginning and an End “My darling daughter, my little one. You may not understand what I have done for a long time. You may be angry with me, you may hate me, you may grow up and be indifferent to me. But whatever you feel, know that I have loved you desperately, and that’s why I had to leave you. You will have a life now, and though the world has changed, it will be safe for a time. You will be frightened, some days. You’re allowed to be frightened. But you are stronger than any flame that burns. Watch over your father. Hold him close to your heart. Cherish your friends. Love yourself and
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But out of everything in the shop, as wonderful as it all was, Eliana liked Simon best of all.
