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August 5 - September 26, 2025
The king did not know then that his greatest love would also be his ruination—nor that either would come in the form of a tiny, helpless human child.
Death isn’t frightening when weighed against an insignificant existence.” An insignificant existence.
DAMN
“Do you want to change this world, little serpent? Then climb your cage until you are so high no one can catch you. Break its bars and make them your weapons. Nothing is sharper. I know because I did it.”
why am i crying- my shaylaaaaa
“Nothing matters but this, Oraya. Nothing. Step over temporary barriers. Once you win, the world is yours. That is the time for dreaming. But this? This is the time for conquering.”
these one liners are going crazy
He glanced over his shoulder at me, brow quirked. “What? Like what you see?”
He stopped mid-step, eyebrow twitching in an expression that I now had come to know meant, Oraya said something amusing, probably unintentionally. “A brute?” I didn’t know what was funny about my word choice. “Yes. Even when you used it in the feast hall that time, it was all power, no finesse.” “You think I have finesse? That’s flattering. So, southern end?” “I think you deliberately try to seem like you don’t.” “Southern end it is.” He started walking. “Perhaps I hide my magic for the same reason you hide yours.” I had to take three steps to keep up with two of his. “You weren’t entitled to
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“You hid it because you didn’t know you could do it. You threw me out of a window completely by accident.” This time—Mother damn my face—the blink of shock happened before I could stop it. “That’s not—” “Look, you are many things, princess. But a good actress is not one of them. Now let’s go. We’re losing moonlight.”
SCREAMING
I didn’t know how I felt about that—the fact that he had been observing me just as closely as I observed him.
im gonna be so pissed off if this is a tamlin situation
On the sixteenth night, in the brief seconds before sleep took me, I thought, This might actually work. It might actually work. And maybe—maybe—I even liked it.
:,)
No, this was the beginning of something horrible. A bloody birth of a bloodier monster. One that could devour us all.
god the authors on fire with these goddamn ons liners, istggggg
He was on his knees, staring up at me. And that—the way he looked at me—was the first thing that felt real. Real, and raw, and… and confusing. Because he looked at me in sheer awe—like I was the most incredible thing he had ever seen. Like I was a fucking goddess.
And perhaps the only other person who had ever really understood what it was like to have a heart that bled both red and black. I hated him. And I loved him.
“And what about you?” he murmured. His thumb stroked my cheek, traced the line of my jaw. “Are you going to kill me, Oraya?”
And just like that night, I didn’t pull away from his touch. Instead, I pressed my palm flat to his chest. Behind him, my kingdom burned. I thought, Maybe. “Not tonight,” I said.
