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Sadly I don’t have any
They can twirl and dance. They can sing and cry. They’re as free as the hems that graze over their thighs.
We rhyming?
Everyone in this small hamlet knows who I am.
Congratulations
So after Father died
And there’s the trauma
the Applegate Trading Company
Oh we’re connecting to the second book?
I wonder if any other forge maiden has been so comfortable with a weapon in her hands. I doubt it.
Don’t y’all make the weapons in the first place
clutch my sickle tighter
How tight are you going to clutch this thing?
All his dark brown hair left his head and has taken residence on his chin.
Damn just called him bald in a roundabout way
“You and your brother are as victim to this circumstance as I and my covenant are. None of us laid the foundation for all this bloodshed, all this death. But we are the ones who must continue to bleed for it.”
Well alright, someone who actually understands what’s happening
My lips part. His thumb slides between them. Slick with blood. I run my tongue along the cut on instinct and swallow.
Bro y’all are this horny in the middle of a fight?!?!
If I opened my mouth right now I couldn’t stop myself from begging for it.
Um girl… now is not the time
“Until you become a Fallen or, worse, a Lost?”
A child. No
“You touch her again and there will be consequences.”
Ah the classics
his lean muscles—the deep shadows hammered by struggle and famine.
Ah yes as everybody knows famine gives you muscle
I can still faintly smell myself on his fingers
I… 🤢
“Not counting the long night, I’m twenty-four,” he says. “Counting the long night, around three thousand, one hundred and twenty-four.”
Ew
I was the one to carve out his chest and yet mine is the one with the hole in it.”
This is the corniest shit ever bro
He’s possibly the smartest person I’ve ever met.
You don’t know a lot of people then
“I’ll gladly die for a true vampir lord. Not some coward who abandoned his people for the chance of stealing a crown,”
Wait what?
You will pay in blood, like the rest of your forsaken kind. I will have the throne I earned, and my vengeance for Loretta.
You’re telling me that this man turned into a bird to get away? Well that’s interesting
I fear I might be falling in love with you.”
There it is again! After two weeks of knowing each other, they say this!
“I would always believe you, Flor.”
Girl just told him his entire life is a lie, and yet he’s just like “yeah I believe you”
We get this Raven Man and we don’t just free the vampir, but the hunters as well.”
Sounds pretty simple
I’m human through and through,
Sure you are
for these vampir—my friends—when
Calm down girlie they barely even like you
“That’s not true. You can be and do whatever your heart desires,”
I don’t think that’s true in this situation
“I want to know what you’re feeling first.”
Such a cop out
My clothes are patched with wet spots from his affections.
Ew
I’m suspended in dumb awe at the amount of trust he’s placed in me.
Girl, YOU CANT LIE! That’s why he believes you
Neither of us is in a good enough place right now to talk productively.
Hey at least you recognize that
way Loretta moves that she’s not a combatant. She’s going to die.
Well damn, you’re really going to doubt her that hard
“You swore—you swore to me that you would never hurt me. Not just because of our bloodsworn. But because you never would want to.” Words are harder by the second.
You’re sure saying a lot of them though
A strange and overwhelming urge to scream, just to break the silence, struggles in my throat.
Why do I understand that? Is something wrong with me… don’t answer that
“Damn you, curse you,” Solos growls toward the sky.
Old man behavior
“A curse upon you. A curse of vengeance, a curse wrought in blood for blood.” Solos retreats into the tower.
You’re kidding right? Solos did it. Wow that’s some irony
“This wound is—” “It’s too deep, and too magical,”
Wow such eloquent writing
I have enough matchmaking on our plate leading up to Callos’s impending proposal to Winny.
I like them better than our main one
But I’m not the only one who’s working late.
Is Sabrina Carpenter in this world too?
