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three Ashleys in a row,
He hated saying it. He hated everything. He couldn’t take it anymore. He didn’t have it in him to love another dream. It hurt too bad. Loving anything did.
Ronan stood and hugged Opal’s head to his leg.
“You were only trying to help,” Ronan said to Opal in a conciliatory way.
a sound that meant it was alive, very alive, not the reverse. The leaves were frozen in midfall. The birds were trapped in midflight. Everything was held in that note.
With a squeak, Opal begged to be picked up, and he did so just as the creatures reached them.
Ronan was always the one to find his dead family members; it didn’t seem
fair.
Those images were his forever now, to the victor the prize, to the discoverer the memory.
Immediately, the sundogs poured into the bottle.
One wanted to give her something to put over her face until she could get her dignity back.
Jordan seemed like she should’ve come first. Hennessy was … less.
As long as his brothers were alive, there was always worse that could happen.
“I went to soccer and all I could think about was how you said I might not have internal organs.”
She somehow seemed more real than any of them.
A dream, but more real than Declan. This was all so tangled.
She wanted him to tell her how to stay alive. She wanted him to tell her how to save Jordan for good, so that she no longer had to rely on Hennessy, who was always and ever unreliable. She wanted Jordan to have the life she deserved. “Sexy as hell,” Hennessy said.
She could tell that he had been hoping for a reply before they did this.
Part of her thought that he hadn’t, though. His brothers, his boyfriend, his friends who called him with information in the middle of the night. But the bigger part of her understood it, because she’d been alone, too. Because at the end of the day, no one else could fathom what it was like living with these endless possibilities inside your head.
She reached between them and fumbled until she felt his leather wristbands, then found his hand. She held it. He held back tightly.
It now had a beautiful black blade to match the hilt.
The sundogs. Lindenmere. Dreams that had to be dreams.
You are made of dreams and this world is not for you.
A sword lay on each of their chests, a matching pair.

