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April 19 - April 24, 2025
Next, I scrawled the truth of my heart into the wood. The flame and the Dragon. All I needed in this world and any other.
There was a presence at my back, footsteps hounding my own. But I didn’t turn. Because I knew who was stalking me into the dark, and I had always enjoyed his brand of violence best.
rejuvenate. He was a ruthless opponent, gifted with all four Elements as well as the shadows too, and it was taking everything I had to block his attacks.
Great so hes an eevil vvega
“Come on, beautiful. Kill that motherfucker,” I said under my breath. Maybe I was a fucking fool to step aside and let her claim that fight when she had no magic to wield, but if there was one thing I’d learned about that girl, it was that she could do anything she put her mind to.
but I’d be damned if I was going out of this world on the day my mate and I had been liberated from our chains.
below. He may have been gifted with the four Elements, but he’d had no training in harnessing them yet, and clearly his parents hadn’t taught him how to catch himself with air.
The creature roared and I definitely got an inappropriate semi over my girl’s display. The
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blade. I tipped Hail Vega a mental salute as I faced my enemy within the old king’s armoury, raising his weapon and feeling the walls shiver around me. I wondered if he was looking this way from beyond the Veil, and my chest swelled at the thought.
“You’d better be watching, sir. Because this fight is for the Vegas.”
I hadn’t come all this way to leave without fulfilling my vow, and I refused to back down even now.
“What is selfless and selfish. Kind and cruel. Endless and fickle. Priceless and without cost. The harbinger of war and the one thing which can end it just as surely?” the ferryman asked, his words a taunt as the riddle washed over me and I just shook my head, having no idea what he meant. “What is excuse and reason. Validation and violence. Need and demand?” “I don’t know,” I replied, and his laughter was cruel and cold. “Yes, you do.”
THE ANSWER IS LOVE
But there was one vital piece missing that made me ache, and as I turned to look for it, it came to me. A beautiful Phoenix bird flew from that gaping wound in the Shadow Beast’s chest, wings of red and blue fire bursting from inside it and flying above me in a circle, a heart wrenching cry leaving its long beak. Then it swept towards me, and I opened my arms wide to embrace it, the bird diving into the furthest regions of my chest and reuniting with my soul. Tears of happiness slid down my cheeks as my Order fused back to the core of who I was, fire exploding out along my arms and laying
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OH THANJK FUCK FOR THAT
I was me again. Whole, and unbreakable. And no shadow would ever find its way into my body from this day until my last.
OHTHANK GOD
With a hissing noise, the collar broke under the intensity of my flames, and it hit the floor beneath the Shadow Beast, turning to ash. The Shadow Beast whined, the sound so mournful that it tugged on my heart strings. It was grief, regret, and I shared in that exact same pain, knowing it far too
Oh my god its givibg dorian havlliard
“I’d hope someone would take the risk if it was me,” I whispered, reaching out and pressing my palm to the soft spot between the beast’s captivating eyes, not letting myself back down on this. It was instinct, and I had to trust it.
Shes such a swetheart
Gabriel gasped awake, his eyes full of visions as Orion took hold of his chains, tearing them apart with his Order strength. My brother reached up and clasped my cheek, a smile lifting his lips and knowledge filling his gaze. “You did it.” “I did it,” I confirmed with a grin, pulling him to his feet. “And now we’ve gotta go.”
OH THABKK FUCK THANK GOD
“It’s not marital if we’re not married,” I pointed out. “We will be married,” Orion said in a growl. “Says who?” I balked. “Says me,” he snapped. “I will wed you the moment this war is over.”
Awww i want my lancee orio
“Again,” Gabriel cut in. “Really not the time. We need to go.”
That sums them pt
I hurried down the corridor at his back with Orion beside me and he leaned low to speak in my ear. “You will marry me.” “You know, people usually ask someone if they want to marry them, not just command it,” I whispered.
Melting
I scoffed, but Orion frowned, looking like he was taking his friend’s words super seriously. Which was ridiculous because as much as I loved Gabriel, I sure as shit wasn’t going to be waiting for his permission to marry Orion if I wanted to. “Darius didn’t ask your permission to marry Tory,” Orion said. “I know. And I’ll be taking it up with him beyond the Veil,
“Love you.” Orion shot me a wink and I melted for him as always. “Love you back. Let’s get home.” “Where is home these days?” “Wherever our family is,” I said
Oh my heart
“And who are we counting as that beyond us three, Tory, Xavier and Caleb?” he asked. “Max, plus Sofia and Tyler. And don’t act like you’re not dying for a Seth snuggle,” I said with a hint of a smirk around my lips. “Actually, I think I’ll go back to the cage,” he deadpanned.
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loss of Geraldine. There was no way the world would ever be the same without her in it.
SHES ALIVE
But I didn’t need magic when I had my Order and a plan to destroy Lavinia once and for all.
I screamed my hate at her, all the injustice of what she had done to Orion tearing a fissure in the centre of my chest.
But this wasn’t the end for me.
easily. I wasn’t sure how long I’d been trapped there, staring at myself, tears burning down my cheeks as I watched the carnage I’d unleashed without flinching.
Oh tor
“Get up,” the wind seemed to growl in a tone so familiar that my pulse thumped loudly at its command, though I remained kneeling where I was, watching my own destruction play out.
ITS HEIIR OF FIRE AKK OVER AGAIN
“Get up, Roxy,” the wind snarled, and my chin lifted higher at that name. That fucking name.
So hof im sobbing
What is unbreakable and yet so easily shattered, what is cunning and honest, brutal and vulnerable, pure and tainted?” My eyes flicked to the water once more and for the briefest moment I saw something beyond my own form raging my way across the battlefield, merciless and ruinous. I saw a golden Dragon tearing across the sky, fire erupting from his jaws while light glinted from his metallic scales and set my heart pounding in my chest. “What is greater than all fear?” I hissed at the ferryman as I met his gaze once more, the tears drying on my cheeks
ITS LOE
What is unbreakable and yet so easily shattered, what is cunning and honest, brutal and vulnerable, pure and tainted?” My eyes flicked to the water once more and for the briefest moment I saw something beyond my own form raging my way across the battlefield, merciless and ruinous. I saw a golden Dragon tearing across the sky, fire erupting from his jaws while light glinted from his metallic scales and set my heart pounding in my chest. “What is greater than all fear?” I hissed at the ferryman as I met his gaze once more, the tears drying on my cheeks
LOVE
“What is more powerful than selfishness and more brutal than hate?”
LOVE
“What will fight without end and destroy without mercy?” I demanded, rallying my strength as I pushed myself to my feet and faced the demon which haunted me.
“The reason I became that creature.” I pointed to the burning monster who raged across that
“Love.”
Its fuckibg crescent city
“Love makes a monster of me,” I continued, stepping towards him, the print of my boots burning themselves onto the wood of the ferry which hissed and spluttered in useless protest. “I have tasted the depths of love born from the embers of hate and I have lived through every emotion between the two. I have sobbed and raged and begged and cursed the stars themselves, but none of that made the slightest bit of difference. So I let that love turn to vengeance, I let it fester and blaze inside of me, and I found a way to defy the stars themselves. You’re standing in the way of that path, which
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They took from me too many times and now they will have to face the monster they made when they incited me because I. Have. Had. Enough!”
There were voices in that wind. Breathy pleas and heartfelt prayers. My chest ached as I heard them all, countless voices crying out to the stars to save them, while nothing but silence came in reply. I heard my voice, felt my chest ache with the sobs that had wrecked me when I found Darius on that battlefield, his body cold and empty, his soul gone and mine shredded right along with it. For a moment I was paralysed there, caught in that memory, in the pain which had carved out a piece of me ever since. In some ways, I was still there, on that battlefield, holding his cold hand in mine and
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LISTENJNG TO WEEAKMNESIA READINGTHS ISNT FOR THE
I hadn’t left him. Not for one moment. I hadn’t released his hand even when I’d taken the dagger which had killed him and sliced my own flesh open with it. I hadn’t let go. And as that scar tingled along my palm, and the scent of smoke and cedar seemed to billow around me and my own vow to him buzzed through the air, I knew I never would. He was the destroyer of me. The ruination of the girl I’d been and the creator of the woman I had become. He was my one true love, without any help or hinderance from the stars. He was more than my Elysian Mate. He was more than my equal. He was my end. And I
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I tilted my head to look down into the smoke coiling beneath me, looking towards the endless drop and knowing for a fact that I would not fall forever once I gave in to it. Because it may have been eternal for a soul who relied on the stars to grant their wishes. But I was a queen, come to make my own prayers a reality, and there was no power in this realm or the next which could deny me.
“Stay close,” I warned and despite how near to us the Nymphs were getting, he knew to obey me, to trust in my visions. He’d learned that lesson long ago.
“Let’s get into the sky so we can see better.” I moved behind him, hooking my arms beneath his and drawing him tight against my chest. “Is this our Titanic moment?” he murmured, and I sniggered before kicking off the ground and carrying him high above the treeline. My gaze fell on Darcy where she hovered above a sphere of red and blue Phoenix fire swirling on the hillside close to the palace, and I assumed the shadow bitch was contained within it. “Damn,” Orion breathed. “Do not get a boner over my sister while I’m touching you,” I warned. “Too late,” he muttered, and I cursed, flying us
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“Let’s get into the sky so we can see better.” I moved behind him, hooking my arms beneath his and drawing him tight against my chest. “Is this our Titanic moment?” he murmured, and I sniggered before kicking off the ground and carrying him high above the treeline. My gaze fell on Darcy where she hovered above a sphere of red and blue Phoenix fire swirling on the hillside close to the palace, and I assumed the shadow bitch was contained within it. “Damn,” Orion breathed. “Do not get a boner over my sister while I’m touching you,” I warned. “Too late,” he muttered, and I cursed, flying us
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“I’ll get up above him,” I decided, flexing my wings. “I’ll strike at him from above with Hail’s sword while you distract him on the ground. At least the fucker can’t fly.” Tharix leapt into the air and a shift tore through his body that made me stagger back a step in shock, an enormous black Dragon shredding through his skin and taking off into the air on leathery wings that stole away the light of the moon. “Oh yeah, by the way Noxy, Tharix can shift into a shadow Dragon,” Orion deadpanned, then shot towards me, giving me a shove in the only direction that was open to us between the trunks.
Great
“Love you, Orio,” I muttered. “Likewise, Noxy,”
At least if I had to die this day, then my best friend was here with me. But I wasn’t giving up until the final door of fate closed firmly in my face.
It made a noise of anguish that sounded an awful lot like the word Gabe and I slammed my sword into its heart with a snarl. “Don’t. Call. Me. Gabe.” I yanked the sword back out and it turned to ash before three more took its place.
because I had so much I wanted to experience in this world. So much love to share with the people I adored. Life was this fleeting, precious thing and it had barely begun. Let us have more.
“Orio?” I turned to find him behind me, his lip split and his left leg pissing blood, but relief echoed through me at finding him alive.
HOW D THEYY KEEP GETTIN OUT ALIVE
but I’d walked too far down this path to turn back now, and I didn’t think there were many prices I wouldn’t pay.
