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‘But whose heart would not take flight? Betray the moon as acolyte On first and fierce affirming sight Of sunlight, sunlight, sunlight’ - Andrew Hozier-Byrne
“One of us took the Sun from the Moon. We took the queen of darkness’s hope, her one redeeming quality—the guiding remembrance that she is not all shadow.”
“Elara’s light is gone. She has nothing to save her. Nothing to hold her back. It is not him we should fear. It is her.”
Her hair rippled past him, and he caught her scent—vanilla and something as smoky as her voice and eyes. He inhaled it deeply, tightening his arms around her waist as they soared. He had no idea what was happening, what transcendental experience he was having, other than the fact that it felt right. That for the first time in twenty-six years he felt like he belonged, and that he was exactly where he should be, soaring through the air on the back of a dragun, his hands around a shadow princess’s waist.
She raised a delicate hand to press around the cut on his cheek. As her soft, cool fingers touched it, his heart stopped. Actually stopped. For a millisecond he was gasping, wordless as he registered that perhaps he was dying. Then it started again, a jolt like lightning streaking through him. He jerked, his body catching up with him as Elara stilled. “I’m not going to hurt you,” she said. It struck such a deep chord within him that even the voice of truth inside him, which was always quiet when she was around and never told him a damn thing about her, spoke. ‘She is who you’ve been looking
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This feeling, as though I’ve been searching for something through lifetimes and found it right here. Like we’ve met before. Like you have consumed my every moment, both waking and asleep, and I barely even know you, but it feels like I do. I’m afraid of what it means, that someone who I’ve been taught is the enemy my whole life is good and kind and makes me laugh against my will. That I think I’m falling in l—
