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I’ll see to it that Soren fulfills his fate and then tortures you endlessly, exactly as you deserve, because you're nothing but a filthy, warmongering, lower-fae cretin.”
9/16/24 It’s like NO ONE has the common sense to realize that she fled long ago and was not a part of that war. Soren, of all people should, as she put up the wall and stop communicating then she arrives back by boat.
It doesn't matter how I feel about my fate.
And she rambles on and on… 9/16/24
My fate says that I'm here to save the kingdom from the war and that my marriage to the Savage Prince will set off a chain of events to end the bloodshed, but I know far more about the Fates than I did when I fled the Southern Lands. I understand that it's not as simple as merely waiting for the Fates to use me like a puppet. No matter how much I want to sit back in this cell and retreat from the evils of this world, I must participate.
9/16/24 So what was the whole point of the rambling on about just staying there, ignoring everything etc that I just had to read through if you KNOW you can’t just sit there? Lordt!
Now that I've seen the dire state of the kingdom, I know I have much harder work to do than only that.
9/16/24 Yet you keep closing your mind off to him, when able to speak, you chose sarcasm and to sneer, you don’t try to figure out if you got him wrong through the rumors even after seeing you got so many other things wrong through the rumors. You know he and the regent don’t get along and that the regent is sitting on a throne that does not belong to him and that it belongs to YOUR mate, but you don’t think you should figure out what’s going on between them? After all, it’s also your position at stake.
My lips are cracked, and I taste blood when I try to wet them, my tongue swollen and sore. My body might be in good health, but it still bears many signs of my captivity.
9/16/24 Wait, wait, wait… hasn’t she had access to and been drinking water?
Bluntness delivered from the face of an ethereal creature. I’m glad I’m well versed in the games of the high fae, because I’d be tripping over my answers if I wasn’t.
Why would you be if you simply told the truth? Nothing about why you’re there, why you came back, is wrong. 🙄🙄 9/16/24
He shakes his head, ignoring my request. “Why haven't you gone mad down here? Every witch we've ever brought here hasn't lasted longer than a day. How are you surviving?”
9/16/24 I thought the guards Sid they never brought witches there…
I’ve learned a good way to dig under the skin of my Fates-blessed mate and his friends, should I need to.
9/16/24 But why though? What good is that going to do? How is it helping?
He’s not here at his superior's command, and it makes me wonder exactly how the Savage Prince runs this castle of his. The Sol King would burn this male alive, publicly and with no remorse.
9/16/24 Yet you call Soren the Savage Prince and think him to be evil as the rumors say… Girl needs to get herself together.
“Haven’t you ever wanted to get back at them for what they've done to us? To destroy the witches as they’ve destroyed so many of us? I’ll admit, the moment I heard from the other guards what she looked like, I wanted nothing more than to see tears running down that filthy face.”
9/16/24 And how is what you plan on doing “getting back at them” for what they did to y’all? Sounds like you want to r* her! Also, why would you think that’s it’s cool to harm a prisoner that the prince himself brought back and has not tortured or harmed in anyway? It’s like you want to die.
watch. I told Luren and Oslo that I was coming down. Both of them said they'd try her out as well, just as soon as their shifts end.
9/16/24 Getting back at the witches, huh… Disgusting.
I reach through the bars and pull the key from the lock as well, then throw it across the room out of my reach so that it looks as though I had no choice but to stay in here.
I would have shut the door but left the key in, just to let them know I COULD have walked out, I CHOSE not to.
the son of pixie-whore stupid enough to think of touching her.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 9/16/24
Finally! A smart person!
9/16/24 Yes! Finally someone who can put two and two together!
She hasn’t tried to fight back, though, clearly outmatched, and I doubt that she was much more than a foot soldier or a sentry, nothing worth concerning myself with when the lives of my people hang in the balance.
9/16/24 See, you were doing good until you went there , trying to downgrade and downplay her status, again…
Tell him I’ve found my mate and will take the throne soon, offer him our gold.
9/16/24. So, he says something about the which being a soldier and you start talking about finding your mate… Well, he is a smart one so…
It’s clear she isn’t just a witch.
If Roan knows what Mother is, how can hey not truly know what it means? 9/16/24.
Clothing, a sleeping roll, and a small purse of Seelie gold—none of the contents gave us any clues about her life before she set foot back on Unseelie soil.
And just where is her bedroll now? She wanted to keep it. 9/16/24
Tauron comes to stand next to me and shakes his head at us both. “Do we want to convince them? What we should really be doing is convincing the Fates that this is a terrible fucking idea.”
9/16/24 Maybe Tauron is working for the regent. He is the most against her being his mate, well, other than Soren himself, but he KNOWS he has to marry her.
It didn’t even occur to me that she has a name.
9/6/24 Lordt! Not even remembering the pet name she gave you back then, Donn?
any coven name she gives us would be as useless to me as the regent’s guards.
9/16/24 Idiot. Yes, they have definitely lost their way. No wonder they are in the state they are in…
Memories flood back to me…the playful tone of her voice, the soft moans she sent to me through our mind link, her willing submission to every last one of my demands as she pleasured herself while she bathed.
9/16/24 They had telepathic foreplay! How did I miss this! Oh Rooke, you so dirty! 😜
I still have no idea how Airlie convinced him to try again.
9/16/24 Young and horny, no convincing required…
What do you expect when you tell them nothing? Both of you are idiots. You came to fulfill your fate and marry him, but block your mind so that he cannot speak to you and don’t offer any info…
9/16/24 Exactly, Old self!
Back in the forest, before my family was murdered, I trained from a very young age in the delicate art of midwifery.
9/16/24 We just gone weave her midwife training into the part about her introduction to the Unseelie court and pretend like her even thinking about that right now even fits… but, we do need it for later in the story.
every inch of his body keenly honed for the protection of his people.
9/16/24 Oh now you can see that he protects his people and not savagely abuses them…
So then why do you assume the prince is such a bad person…🙄🙄
9/16/24 You should have been able to tell that by the state of the kingdom…
The rumors my brother heard of Prince Soren while searching for information about Kharl and the war had indicated that the moniker the Savage Prince came from his fighting prowess, that he’d become unbeatable on the battlefield and that his swordsmanship was unlike any other in the Southern Lands. In the Northern Lands, this was seen as a very promising sign of the ruler to come.
9/16/24 Oh NOW you’re putting a positive spin on the title you were using in such a negative way… 🙄🙄
I should care more about this, and yet the same hollow feeling that got me onto the ship to return here still has my body in its grips. I have no sympathy for any of these people. Nothing for the rulers who destroyed the land I once called home, land that still cries out from underneath my feet.
9/16/24 Blah blah blah… for someone who doesn’t care, you sure have spent the majority of this chapter doing otherwise…
Royal unions are traditionally held on the winter solstice—only exceptional circumstances have allowed another date to be chosen, and my uncle wouldn’t allow a majority vote to pass within the court to move mine.
9/16/24 And here we insert the conditions that will prolong the union so that we can read the same things over and over again about their feelings of hatred for each other, to cover their lusting, and more of them assuming so much wrong crap about each other…
This is my first public move against him. I move back to watch as the court takes to the dance floor, spinning and twirling around in all of their finery.
9/16/24 So… every turned to look and then went right back to dancing?
the colors of their clothing is the right shade of blue and trimmed with silver in tasteful and delicate ways.
9/16/24 Yes we know the colors already! Repetitive.
He sounds dumb ass hell saying that then acting and thinking the way he does about Rooke and his fated mate situation…
9/16/24 I concur, Old Self.
Maybe stop threatening her and listen to her because she already said that she was following the fates wishes, which is to marry you dumb ass…
9/16/24 How about NOT parading her around in chains and filthy clothes and actually trying to speak with her like an adult?
How long do you think you'll last without food? I would rather spare your portion for someone who deserves it.”
Dude, you you even see why she’s given to eat? Boi stop! 9/16/24
I’ve been nothing but polite and genial to the lot of you, and yet that courtesy has been returned with threats of violence and deprivation. It’s my own fault. I shouldn't have expected better of the Unseelie high fae.”
9/16/24 In hindsight, maybe you should have opened the channel to Soren when you first decided you were coming back to get a bead of him temperament… better yet, you should have told him when you reached the Northern lands that that’s where you were, even if it was to say you were never coming back…
Two hundred years I spent in the Seelie Court, fighting against the Fates themselves to prove to myself that I didn't have to surrender to their whims.
9/16/24 I don’t know who keeps writing this part but it makes no sense because the whole reason there was even a Seelie War was because the King defied fate. But you’re saying she fought in the war to prove that she didn’t have to accept her fate…
This is so stupid it doesn’t even make any sense and this time it’s in the same sentence! You’re there fighting in a ware due to someone defying the fates yet you’re determined to defy them yourself… That’s logical.
9/16/24 That’s what I said too, Old Self!
I was carried from the battlefield on horseback, desperate hands holding my wounds closed to be sure I didn’t lose any organs
9/16/24 How many people were on that horse? One had to be driving and another had to have both hands on the wound since hands was plural… and then there’s Rooke herself…
And now, instead of getting on with the conversation, we go off on another tangent about Kharl…
9/16/24 And don’t forget, Old Self, this was already said before multiple times…
I’m eager to find out whatever we can about the little witch the Fates have put in my path.
9/16/24 Try talking to her… 🙄🙄 Nicely.
Tauron and Tyton are still sharing guard shifts over the witch, in case my uncle has left a spy here to kill her.
9/17/24 Isn’t that really a waste of time considering what she did to Merrill and Lysen single handedly? He really is full of himself… Also, didn’t he just say he warned Tauron to keep Tyton away from the which yet those are the two doing the shifts? Makes no sense.
As the entry room of my chambers, it holds my desk and chairs but nothing else, and two soldiers guard the doors at all times to ensure no one enters the small sanctuary I call my own.
9/17/24 Wel, since it’s attached to your bedroom, one would hope it’s guarded…
“Are you trying to poison me, witch?” His voice is scathing. “Are you trying to use your magic against me now that you have shown yourself to be nothing more than a docile little lamb caught in a deadly trap? I won't fall for it.”
9/16/24 Okay idiot. How hard is it to verify with someone that the tea and its ingredients are safe? Nothing about that sounds like poison. This group of males are highly immature.
“I suppose you spent a lot of time in the Sol Army giving out tinctures for headaches, did you? I'm sure that helped greatly against the Ureen.”
9/17/24 Dude, stop being petty and childish and just ask her what you want to know instead of trying to wheedle information out of her. You already know she’ll tell you things…
I’ve met other high fae with the power to read the truth and intentions, and even witches with the ability,
9/17/24 So I guess the Sol King can’t then, as Soren speculated, since she didn’t mention him at this moment of recalling meeting those that could.
“Why return here? If you knew that the War of the Witches was raging, why come back? Tell me the truth now, witch, and maybe I can get you out of the cell.
9/17/24 That conversation started good until he said “now witch” when he knows her name…
The sound of his voice was bad enough but now that my gaze has strayed from the burning azure depths, I’m stuck basking in all of his glory. How has the shine of the Unseelie high fae dulled for me in every last one of them except him? Why does my reaction to him only grow stronger, even as my fury becomes an untamable beast?
9/17/24 Probably because he’s your fated mate? Just a wild guess though… 🙄🙄
He’s going to wash her in the stables… with cold water… wow.
9/17/24 How on earth did you come to that conclusion, Old Self? Where’s the clues, or were you speculating based off how cruel he’s been?
He kicks his horse and leaves us, the soldiers moving into formation behind him without a word.
Only 30 soldiers?
