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Ageless, beautiful, undying, distant—and lost. Even now, he could not help but stare.
Corayne offered smiles like her coin: an item to trade. Like always, she felt a barrier between herself and the throng of people, as if she were watching them through glass.
It is good to know your own measure. Especially in a world where women were as much what they looked like as what they could do.
I can’t stay here any longer. It feels like the world is growing over me.”
Nothing changed, and yet nothing was the same as before.
“Your blood is born of the Spindles, of distant realms and lost stars. You want the horizon, Corayne of Old Cor. You want it in your bones,”
This is the best way out of here. To the horizon and beyond it. To whoever I am, in my bones.
Untrustworthy, unfit, too weak to rule. History gorges itself on women raised high and then brought low by men grasping for their power. I will not be one of them. I will not lose what my father gave me. I will make it greater.
Restless, maybe, but what girl of seventeen is not?
“Unless you die,” Sorasa said airily, pulling hard on the door. “Gods willing, if it means never seeing you again,” Dom muttered
their banter <3
But still he could not jump. It wasn’t the fall that frightened him, all twenty feet of it into the rushing black river. The drop could have been two inches or two miles. Either way, it felt like an ending, a gate falling shut. A failure of everything that came before.
But there was no escape from the man beside her. And there should not be. He is my husband, a choice I made, a path I followed. He is mine to use. I should not hide from him.
It doesn’t matter what you call the thing ripping you apart. It will still devour you if given the chance.”
At the rear of their line, Dom scoffed. “I did not realize there was a competition for worst personality,” he crowed.
I don’t know the stars here. I don’t know the way forward. I don’t even know the way back.
