Ocean's Echo (The Resolution Universe)

by Everina Maxwell

Surit didn’t immediately answer. The line of Tennal’s throat was outlined in crimson and blue light thrown from a sign opposite. Surit knew his own tendencies, which had nothing to do with gender and everything to do with people who were lightning strikes on dead land.

Gotdamn

Like a drumbeat in the back of Surit’s head, like a distant tide on a shore, Tennal felt something Surit had been trying not to think about. He felt a dizzying reflection of himself. Surit had an image of Tennal in his head that he was trying to hide, something made of lightning and razor edges and fireworks. Surit had been thinking about him for weeks.