Lor (Monstrous, #7)

by Lily Mayne

Same, Lor….same

At least she had been here to almost witness her sons reach adulthood. 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. She had hugged him tight—hugged both of us.

“Fuck anyone who makes you feel like shit for who you are, man,” Anton said with surprising vehemence. “You gotta live your life how you’re meant to live it. That’s all any of us can hope to achieve, right?”

But then he stumbled, seeing as he wasn’t watching where he was going, and quickly faced forward again. I was starting to realise that his ears gave away when he was embarrassed or flustered, and they twitched wildly now. I pursed my lips to suppress a smile, squeezing his hand.

I wasn’t expecting Lor to be such a dork lol

“The ability to travel great distances in the blink of an eye.

Moth would like a word with you

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

I’m dying to know if this is Cat from the raider camp. It would be so cool if he was trans just like Lyri

Maybe it was because I felt entirely lacking. Like a fraud.

The imposter syndrome is real

“And we still have a bit more time,” he said as he pulled back, smoothing my hair from my damp face. “Let’s do something fun tomorrow. Well, as fun as it can get in this room.” He chuckled. “We’ll do whatever you want,” I whispered, twining our fingers together on the pillow between us and kissing his knuckles. “Anything. We will spend the whole day together.” He smiled back drowsily, eyes already slipping shut, face lined with exhaustion after his emotional onslaught. “Sounds nice.” The next morning, he didn’t wake up.

Oh god

Lyri snorted quietly beside me, crossing his arms. “I think they mean that they wish to be sitting up in the hyll. They clearly fancy themselves some kind of ruler.”

You don’t even KNOW

Displacing them from their homes, taking them away from the lands and flora and fauna they knew so well and utilised so efficiently. No one had cared.

It might be the anthropology major in me, but I would kill for a history book of some of the main species from the series. Especially the salyik and telyth. Their anatomy also seem too similar to not have some similar ancestors

“Alright, that’s something.” Lyri nodded. “We find their… king, and explain our offer. Reach out peacefully.”

Whelp I guess we know how he ended up in that prison

Lyri’s face softened. “Hopefully not for long, Lor.

Pft, try like 15 years

But Jugs was so gentle. And kind. And accepting. Surely the majority of humans were more like him? Surely they would want peace, not war, just as much as we did?

Double pft

My eyes filled with tears again. I didn’t voice it, but… I struggled to understand why. Why he loved me so much. Why he had waited so long for me. I wasn’t anyone special. I was just the idiot who’d fallen through that void and into his palace. I wasn’t very smart, and I didn’t think I was very handsome. But… Lor did. Lor told me I was smart. And he said I was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen. He treated every moment with me like it was precious.

I’ll just say that we are inviting them to the hyll. They will no doubt think it’s simply because I’m interested in the otherworlder.”

Cracking up that the response they get back would have probably been very different if they had told wyn that jugs was there

The baregh huffed and pulled a tiny notebook out of his vest pocket. “He made me write it down. He said…” Seis flipped open the notebook and squinted at it. “He said, ‘No, I’m not fucking interested in meeting the Moric. If I see him or any of his guards anywhere near Danny, I’ll rip their spines out. You think I give a shit about that vint just because his skin is blue?’”

Mood

Seis paused and glanced up at us. “At that point I told him I would simply pass on the message that he had declined, but he kept going.”

Lololololol

A pained sound left me as they came into focus, and I saw my twin brother’s teeth gleaming in the sun as he grinned at me and raised a hand in greeting.

I’m glad we at least got to see him return. Makes the wait for Lyri’s book a little easier

It is not just a gaudy display of wealth, Wyn! It is to SAVE JUGS’ LIFE.

Lololol

Would’ve been cool to have Danny and Jugs meet, though. And they will! Just not yet.