Lor (Monstrous, #7)

by Lily Mayne

“What could possibly be on the other side?”

Ur bf lor

There were still rumours to this day that one had survived whatever fate befell them that day. Travelling folk insisted on seeing a lone isdernuc wandering the lands, sometimes in the company of one of the telyths—the ghoulish creatures from a forgotten age.

Edin and wyn!!

I spent most evenings alone in my private quarters. Reading or pampering myself or picking at food as I gazed out the windows at the city beneath the hyll.

What a vibe honestly

Some kind of… otherworldly monster, with his strange pinkish-white skin, glaringly bright armour and frantic barking language.

The organisers of Camp Wynsome liked me, which was why they’d asked me to come back for three years in a row.

Wynsome???? Is this a coincidence?

This is a weird spaceship, I vacantly thought, but then two werewolves walked in, and I passed out.

At least she had gotten to see Lyri shape his body into the man he had always been. She had immediately called for the royal healthkeeper when he finally told her, years after he had told me, his hand sweating in mine the night we had gone to her chamber for him to finally tell her that he was her son, not her daughter.

Love the rep

This was all very unseemly—the Moric, dirty and dishevelled in his nightclothes, hiding away in a staff cupboard with a half-dressed otherworldly creature. And he was wearing my robe, for Mabs’ sake—what would they think?

Lor is so cute. Also I wonder why Lily Mayne is doing dual pov now? I kinda liked the single pov better

“Tengyoo,” he said, voice still unsteady but much, much calmer. “Ai dun—Ai dunnoh waddafuk izgowen onbut… tengyoo fur leddinmee goh.”

HAHAHAH

“Lyri!” I placed a palm on my forehead, feeling faint. “You are giving me palpitations.”

Lor is so cute ☺️

Placing the vessel reverently on the chest of drawers, I stared at it. This was a priceless object from another world. Yes, it looked crumpled, but perhaps… perhaps it was designed in that shape to aid the otherworlders in drinking out of the tiny hole.

it’s a beer bottle lid LMAOAOO he’s so cute

“Hoh-lee sheet,” he croaked. I wondered if it was a greeting of some kind. Lyri had laughed at my awful attempt to mimic the creature before, but I swallowed and timidly repeated, “H-hoh-li sheeet.”

LMFOAOAOAOOA THIS IS SO CUTE HES ADORABLE

“Flashlight,” he said. “Hag’s balls,” I blurted, then clapped a hand over my mouth as my ears heated. Thank the Mabs he couldn’t understand me yet.

HES SO CUTE

I had spent the entire afternoon pampering myself like a spoiled Moric, but for once, I didn’t feel guilty.

Then they dipped back down to my lips, and he leaned forward in a rush, getting very close to my mouth. I jerked my head back, startled. “What… what are you doing?” Was it customary for humans to watch someone eat very, very closely? That seemed rather disgusting, but I wouldn’t dare say that and offend Jugs.

HES SO ADORABLE OH MY GAWD

“You usually close your eyes while you’re, um, kissing.” I slammed my eyelids shut and heard him snuffle out a little laugh.

HES SO PREVIOUS AND CUTE ARGHHHHHH

I wiped my clammy palms on my shorts and stepped forward to hold my hand out to Lyri. “It’s—it’s nice to meet you properly.” Lyri stared at my hand, then at Lor, then at Gryf. Slowly, he reached out and poked the tip of my middle finger. “Uh… greetings?”

LMFAO IM SO DEAD

“It is called a handshake, Lyri.” Lor sounded a little smug to know this already. “Grasp his hand and move it up and down.” “Why the fuck would I do that?”

IM SO EFFING DONE THIS IS HILARIOUS

Lyri snatched my hand up in his and squeezed it painfully tight, pumping our arms up and down vigorously. “Greetings, human. I am Lyri. Lor’s twin brother and the Verin.” I tried to smile through my wince as he almost wrenched my shoulder out of its socket.

Oh my god

Their battles shake the land.”

Mmm not quite battles but ok

He smoothed out the empty chip packet carefully. “I will keep this. Soon I will have a glorious collection of otherworld artifacts.”

He’s so adorable 🥹🥺

I’d never really given much thought to fate, but… what were the odds of the void appearing in Lor’s guestroom?

I wonder how this story connects to the other monstrous characters. Someone said it was like a prequel so I wonder what happens to Lor and jugs during present day. God I hope they’re alive

“Momma, does Cat get ice cream too?” the little boy said without taking his eyes off the display in front of him.

No freaking way. This would mean cat is like 32 ish? It would also mean cat is transgender

For several weeks now, I’d been having weird flashes of symptoms. My throat would spasm, making me swallow repeatedly. My hands would start trembling wildly. And yesterday morning, Anton had commented on a weird rash on my back as I’d been coming out of the bathroom after a shower.

Oh my god he better not die or anything

That was what made it more confusing. It came and went. I could go hours at a time with none of it happening, then it wouldn’t stop for an hour solid.

I wonder if its a reaction to going through the void so many times

“I’m sorry, Lor.” She swallowed. “This… this is how it started with your mother.”

Im sobbing. Please dont let him die

I thumped it back down onto the sideboard as my chin started wobbling, sinking to my haunches and burying my face in my hands. Once I let myself start crying, I couldn’t stop. I wept into my hands, trying to stay silent so Lyri and Jugs wouldn’t hear from the bedroom.

Oh my god i just want to give him a giant hug

This was so much worse than when Mama had started getting ill. We had been so young then, and youth made you feel invincible. Untouchable. Horrible things happened to other people, but they wouldn’t happen to us.

“When I’m gone, I don’t want you to blame yourself for this. It’s not your fault. P-please don’t—please don’t feel guilty. Please don’t—Just make sure you’re happy, okay? Enjoy your life. Don’t waste it.”

This is the most depressing thing ive ever read. I will literally never recover from this book.

“But you won’t really be here.” I was crying so hard I could barely speak anymore.

Im depressed. Goodbye

“I haven’t really achieved much, but making the decision to come back here, to meet you properly, is the thing I’m most proud of in my life,” he told me quietly. “I love you, Lor. I don’t regret any of it. And that… that helps. It helps me accept what”—his breath shuddered out of him—“what’s going to happen. It was all worth it. I love you.”

oh my god im sobbing

The next morning, he didn’t wake up.

LILY MAYNE WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME. This is giving me flashbacks to the song of achilles im sobbing

At least… at least a part of me was in there with him. I hoped he remembered, wherever his mind now was—if it was even awake enough to think. I hoped he knew how much he meant to me. How happy he had made me. How much I loved him, as he had told me just hours before he slipped into this awful sleep.

Jesus christ

“Jugs was proud of you.” His voice was harder, firmer. “He told me. He was so proud of you, and he asked me to make sure you didn’t stop trying after he was—g-gone.”

IM SOBBI G OH MY GAWD

Five years.

Oh my god this is so freaking sad. How long is this going to go on for?

Eight years.

Youre actually joking right? This is the most depressing shit ive ever read.

Ten years.

LILY MAYNE WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP. I wonder if lor somehow caused the apocolypse on earth. I think jugs will wake up when the apocolypse starts

They were flooding Jugs’ world. Some of the most awful creatures to exist were pouring through that void and into Jugs’ world. Where five billion humans lived.

Fifteen years.

This is actually effing crazy

Fifteen years since I had lost Jugs. Almost a third of my life spent in this in-between place where I couldn’t feel and I couldn’t move on and I couldn’t truly grieve.

It took four years for negotiations with Moric Oril

so 19 years since he lost jugs? This is crazy

When the day finally came for him to leave, he looked calm and confident,

I wonder if this is when lyri meets cat

Lyri never came back.

Im guessing he met cat at this point

Was this my punishment? For being born into such privilege, for being so weak for the first twenty years of my rule? Was this pain and loss just a part of this life? My mother had experienced it too—losing our father so young, having her own life ripped away from her. Maybe this was the payment the Mabs demanded for living in such luxury. For never experiencing the day-to-day hardship that others did.

“Lor, please.” Seis’ voice was hoarse, vulnerable in a way I hadn’t heard before. “It’s me. Of anyone still here, it is me you can talk to.”

Thirty years.

??????????

“Seis made me poison him several weeks ago. So that we could be sure.”

I just love seis

How… how long?” I pursed my trembling lips and forced myself to look him in the eyes. “Thirty years.”

“I would wait my whole life for you,” he said quietly, trying to steady his voice even as tears continued to stream freely down his cheeks. He pressed his lips to my hand again. “I would wait forever for you, Jugs.”

SOBBING

“I love you,” I whispered again. It almost scared me how much I loved him, and I had never, ever seen anyone look at me the way he was looking at me right then—like he couldn’t believe I was really here, awake. Like he was terrified that if he moved, I’d disappear.

Ive never cried so much while reading a book