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indignant decision
Is that a thing?
Having lived so long in the uncompromising sunlight of Hilo’s love, the absence of his affection was a lifeless and unending winter.
She had short, sexy hair and milky skin and slightly parted full lips.
Really?
Everything’s more beautiful when you don’t think you’ll see it again.”
“Kaul Shaelinsan, Weather Man of No Peak,” she said, “you can fuck off and die.”
unfrightening room with a table and chairs.
Un frightening?
And it’s not always that people are bad in their hearts so much as bad in their decisions.
She sometimes thought of her first, aborted pregnancy, and of Tau Maro, of how much he’d loved his little nieces and would never have any children of his own, with her or anyone else. Because she had executed him.
Incomplete sentence
“Don’t show off how much you hate a man until you’re ready to be his enemy,”
“Only children and gods are arrogant enough to judge what they can’t understand.
the gray in her hair was blended into silver highlights.
The Pillar of the Mountain is gray-blending
“Gold and jade, never together.
“In my experience, as long as your friends have a high opinion of you, it doesn’t hurt when your enemies have a low opinion, the lower the better.”
The Pillar tilted his head back and roared even above the growing noise of the arriving helicopter.
Wow! That would be loud
“Not yet, they haven’t,” he said. “But they will.”
chin-length dyed hair
I feel like this could have been described better
The tiny jade studs over his eyebrows accentuated not his eyes but the dark hollows underneath them.
Ugh
