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August 20 - August 21, 2022
We both moan at the same time.
“You’re going to come on my tongue. And when you do, I want you to scream my fucking name.”
“Until hell freezes over.” “And even then.”
“Foxem,”
Kane, myself, Foxem, Syfer, Kalidus, Dai, Aquarus.”
“Syfer is a mute alter.
“Kalidus is a fictional alter, the idea of him taken from a story Kane read as a child.
“Aquarus is also a fictional alter. A god of the sea.
“Dai… is an animal alter. Short for DaiSzek.
“You look like a wet cat, baby.”
“Not much throws me off, but that gutted me, Skylenna.”
“I’ve waited so fucking long.” He takes another look at my spread legs with feverish longing. “To have you tighten around my cock. To fuck you until you remember me.”
“Eyes on me, baby. I’ll let you watch me pull it in and out another time,”
I can see that look in his eyes. That yearning, that soul-shattering love. That man who will die for me. Who will tear down any man that wishes me harm.
“I’ve never wanted anything more,” he growls,
“I will always come back for you. Until hell freezes over.” “And even then.”
A clean move, a swing of his axe slicing through their necks like butter. Seven heads roll.
“Skylenna, it took me four hours and thirteen minutes to save you. And I’m ashamed it took us that long.”
“You can let go, honey. I’ve got you.”
“You sliced them in half?”
He didn’t just rescue Ruth. He went back for Chekiss and Niles, too. He brought my friends back to me.
us watching him slaughter soldiers next to the black beast who likes to chew on human brains like they’re a toy you can buy at the market!”
“Maniacal needs for vengeance for those who’ve wronged Skylenna?” Kane sighs. “No.” “Not even when I do this?” Niles holds unblinking eye contact with Kane as he reaches to his left, flicking me in the arm. “Hey!” I hiss, rubbing the stinging area with my other hand. “You’re pushing it,” Kane says, unamused.
“To me, it looks like you’re the world, and he’s the moon that revolves around you. When we were all laughing at Niles, Kane was smiling because you looked happy. It’s like that’s his only goal.”
“You’re everything to me. I’ll never lose sight of you again,”
They don’t even have a moment to react before his teeth carve so deeply into their flesh, he’s ripping out full gushing arteries, flinging them to the snow.
slurping crack.
cutting through their necks like butter. A gory show of flying heads and spraying veins. It’s a clotted mist, a crimson thunderstorm over their falling bodies.
“I met Dessin when I was ten, then Foxem when I was eleven. And Syfer when I turned fourteen.”
“No. I met the animal that he turns into when it is forced out of him.”
He was only twelve.”
“I love you, Niles. You’re my chosen brother in this life.”
“Skylenna, I’ve known you since you were two years old.”
I fought my way through the flames and found you passed out, holding her hand.
I made it halfway to her room when half of the ceiling came crashing down on my back. By the time I pulled myself out of the fire, her body was a pile of ashes.”
“They have him,”
“I swear to God, Skylenna. I won’t ever let them put you in that goddamned cage again.”
Warrose nudges me with his bulky shoulder. “He’s so sweet in the mornings, isn’t he?”
“This is the leader of our country.”
“This is Aurick Demechnef.”
