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No face, no weapon, nothing to indicate that he might do her harm. Just a man. But she is a girl. And she is alone. And it is night. And that is enough.
She ducks her head and takes the stairs two at a time, but tries to do it casually, the way women do when they’re afraid but trying not to look rude.
Books about proto-languages. Books about sigils and runes. Books about Sumerian, Hattic, Elamite, Hurrian. Books about Linear A. and Cretan hieroglyphs about syllabaries and logograms and constrained writing.
Men do not know what it feels like to be hunted. Men do not walk alone on dark streets and think about fingers closing around their throats or their skulls thudding dully against the pavement. They do not think about strangers coming to their house and slaughtering their entire family. Emer likes to find them where they sit or stand or walk, comfortable, unafraid. Because there is no need to fear if you are a man. You own the darkness. It is your space.
“It makes you look like a lesbian,” he said to her once. Lawrence Wolf failed, rather spectacularly, to realize that was precisely the point.
Once, Jude was practically a princess, the spoiled daughter of a very rich man. Now she is walking nuclear fallout in the form of a girl.
I did not come this far to only come this far,
Hypnotic Poison by Dior,
The scent is intense and distinctive, heady-sweet vanilla with jasmine and almond.
“Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women.”
“Of course I have written invocations for trans women,” Emer says. “Demons do not care about bodies. They only care about souls.”
That becoming the hero of your own story does not always mean you get a happy ending.
