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January 14 - January 15, 2025
“You say that as if I’m asking a stupid question. I’ve been locked in here all day!”
“If you could be trusted not to run, then perhaps you wouldn’t be locked in here.”
“But it is what it is.”
“Highness? Man, I bet Cas loves being referred to as that.” Kieran chuckled. “You miss him already?”
“It’s actually an honor to guard what the Prince values so highly,” he replied. “And since I’m never quite sure what you’re going to do from one second to the next, it’s not even remotely boring. That is, except when you’re sleeping.”
“I know,” he interrupted. “Unless you are the one who carved it from the bones of a wolven, you don’t need to apologize. I imagine it was created shortly after the War of Two Kings. Many of my kind fell during the battles, and not all the bodies could be retrieved.”
“What is the elemental bloodline?”
“Those whose blood is purely Atlantian and can be traced back to the earliest known Atlantians,” he answered. “Not descendants by blood but by creation.”
“Yes, by the deities, the children ...
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“They ruled Atlantia since the dawn of time, up until the last of them died. They weren’t just a bloodline,” he said. “They were Atlantia.”
“Since their blood can feed one of an elemental line and be used to make vamprys, they don’t need blood after their Culling, do they?”
“No. They do not need blood.”
“Those of the elemental line can go long periods without food but doing so requires them to take blood more often. Vamprys can eat, but they don’t need to. Food does nothing to slake their bloodlust.”
“If your mother or father had Atlantian blood in them, that doesn’t mean they were purely Atlantian. They could’ve been second-generation and your memory of their eye color faulty.”
“It’s also possible that neither of them were your birth parents.”
“Changelings?”
“I did not say that. I merely suggested that one or even possibly both weren’t her blooded parents.”
“We want to take you to Atlantia. Not starve you.”
“I believe he was more concerned about what you said than if his warning was left up long enough to be heeded.”
“I, on the other hand, would’ve left Jericho
up there for at least another...
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“There should always be dignity in death,”
“I don’t think you realize how much sway you have over him.”
“Would you like me to knock you off this bench?”
“Cas is right. You are incredibly violent.”
“The amount of blood someone has does not define an Atlantian,” Kieran elaborated. “Those who are elemental are no more important than those who aren’t.”
“Nothing lives forever. Anything can be killed if you try hard enough.”
“But no matter how hard you try with that knife you just swiped,” he said, and my eyes widened, “you will not be able to kill Cas with it.”
“It would probably only further endear you to him.”
clearly even during the darkest hours of the night.”
“Each person has a unique scent. At certain times, the scent is stronger. Especially when someone is aroused.”
“Only the wolven have keener senses that allow us to track over longer distances,”
“And for longer periods.”
“I’m sorry.” Kieran didn’t look remotely remorseful. “I meant desire. She doesn’t like the word arousal.”
my—”
“You reminded me that as Hawke, I believed in that.”
“You don’t need to apologize,” he said. “You’re beautiful when you’re quiet and somber, but when you laugh? You rival the sunrise over the Skotos Mountains.”
“It’s why we must marry.”
Atlantia rose from blood and ash. We are no longer a fallen kingdom. Not by any sense of the word. We haven’t been for a very long time. We are a kingdom of fire.”
“Give in to your demands or face war?”
“And forcing me to drink your blood wasn’t?”
“I was saving your life,”
“Maybe I’m saving yours by reading yo...
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“I understand why you’re doing this. They have your brother, who was captured in the process of freeing you,”
“I can understand that you’d go to extremes to get him back.”
“I would do t...
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“Then in front of him and in private, I will fight you tooth and nail. I will not pretend to be the docile fiancée without an audience.”
“I feel like this is a trick, and you’re two seconds from trying to plunge that knife into my heart again.”
“What good would that do? You’d only be annoyed, and the knife is not nearly sharp enough to sever your head or pierce your incredibly thick skull.”
“I want a ring,”
