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“But she will be soon,” Rayner added. “Scarlett is the one who told me Sorin’s secret,” she whispered loudly to Rayner. “What secret is that?” Rayner asked in amusement, another smile hooking up on his lips. “That treats make him smile,” she answered, squirming to make Sorin set
hand, tugging him towards the kitchens. “But I figured out his other secret all by myself.” “Oh?” Rayner questioned, falling into step beside her. “Mhmm,” she hummed. “He smiles biggest when he sees her.”
“So what do you suggest we do, little fox?”
“I have noticed, Princess, that you only tend to follow orders at the same moments your manners seem to make those rare appearances,” he said casually.
“Do you think the stars are cursed to be stuck in the sky?” she mused, and her words had Cyrus and Eliza looking back at him with the same concern that had been there moments ago. “No, Scarlett,” Sorin answered. “I do not think the stars are cursed to have to stay in the darkness when they love it there.” “Maybe they only love it because they do not think they can leave,” she said thoughtfully.
“Maybe they love it so much they have never felt the need to seek anything else. Maybe they have looked down from where they reside in the night and found that there is nothing that compares, that their curse is anything but,” he
“Maybe the darkness needs to accept the fact that the stars do not want to go anywhere. And maybe the darkness needs to tell the demons that haunt it that the stars have already staked their claim and there is nothing left for them to have.”
“Why is it that outside these walls, I am nothing but a woman who is expected to act a certain way, speak a certain way? I am expected to accept my place? Be given to whomever will benefit from my bloodline the most? Spread my legs and produce heirs to further this entire broken system? Why is it that I have the ability to help those at the bottom and even they do not want my help? What good is all of this if I can do nothing with it?”
“What you are doing matters, Tava. What you are doing is making a difference. You may not see it. You may feel like it is futile, but I promise your actions are being felt in a ripple effect. And if you have made a difference in even one person’s life, would you not consider it worth it?” “Yes,” she breathed. “Then know that you have made a difference in mine.”
“I see you, Tava. I just…want you to know that I see you. You are not in my background. You are not a spirit that blends in. I see you. I apologize that it took this long to do so.”
“On the way to the Fire Court when this all began, you said to me that history depends on which book you are reading. This is no different,”
“Darkness is feared because you cannot see where it leads. Blood Magic is the same. But I would venture to guess there are stars to be found within it, too.” Sorin swallowed thickly. He reached
“Perhaps a goddess cannot stop this, but a Lady of Darkness can.”
He hadn’t seen her like that in… Well, not since she’d been a whirlwind of wrath when he’d told her he’d known she was royalty and kept it from her. But that had been rage roiling
She tossed him a saccharine smile. “I suppose you live and learn.” “I suppose we do.”
“Go home, Son of Fire. Anala will find it interesting Amaré has chosen a full-blooded
