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“You wanted a wild wolf-girl,” I say in a strangled voice that doesn’t sound at all like my own. “You got one.”
A pitiful dawn creeps over the forest, the pinks and golds of sunrise strained through the dark latticework of tree branches and bracken, squeezing out their color.
“Our gods don’t ask us for perfection.” Just as we don’t expect rhyme or reason from our gods. They’re fickle and stubborn and heedless and indulgent, like us. The only difference is that they burn whole forests to the ground in their rage, and drink entire rivers dry in their thirst. In their joy, flowers bloom; in their grief, early winter frost edges in.
“Stop scaring me.” The hen cocks its head. Then it explodes.
the snort i let out bro
“If we continue this way,” he says slowly, “it will be a very long journey.” My knuckles are white around my horse’s reins. After a moment I let my muscles relax, shoulders slumping beneath my wolf cloak. “Fine,” I say. But in my head, I think, Stupid prince.
“Are you doubting my aim?” “No,” he says, lifting his gaze to mine. “I don’t doubt you, wolf-girl.” My skin prickles, and not with cold.
THE SLOWBURN IS BURNINNGGGG
“It seems ill fitting for someone who shares their bed with a Juvvi to curl their lip at me. Do you take off your pendant before your coupling?”
OH MY GOD???
Just past her hut, Tuula’s reindeer move in blurs of silver, like clouds drifting. Their antlers are bone grails, holding cupfuls of sky.
“I’m not begging you,” I say. With a sudden rush of feckless spite, I add, “Would you like it if I did?”
jaw: DROPPED
Coming back to save the king must hurt as much as being expelled to save Katalin. It’s hard to think that it took me so long to realize that the shape of our wounds is the same.
GODDDDD
“You have the uncommon ability to make me doubt what I once thought was certain,” he says. “I’ve spent the last fortnight fearing you would destroy me. You may still.”
til the neighbors know our names bro
A bad memory shared between two people carries with it only half the pain.
