Status Updates From Sigil (Irdesi Empire #1)

“ When she wakes she’ll desire a friend. He will sit with her, act as her guide, and never be anything more.”

yeah not a backstabbing friend

“The rage in Sovereign as he held Sigil’s blood-soaked, limp form was beyond anything Arden had witnessed”

bcs now y’all lost the last string that would tie her together

“Wrapping her arms around the cryobox, she screamed and screamed,”
“Draped over her friend’s skull, blood dripped from her ears, her nose.”
“It would be over soon. Quinn could already feel the lack of air bringing with it a dimness of consciousness to ease so much pain
“a heart that hurt so badly she would have ripped it out of her own chest had she any strength left.”

“Calm yourself, Sigil!”
Calm? She was calm.
Feeling the slickness of ocular tissue shift in their sockets, the slow drag of eyeball against lid, Sigil looked over a horror: her lovely Que’s head displayed battered in a box—staring forward, eyes flat, lids uneven. His familiar mouth was slightly agape, and Que was lovely no more.”
😭💔💔😞

“Que.” So much fear lay on one battered expression, so much fatigue. The way the skin crinkled sadly at her eyes, Quinn knew she could not fight him, knew she couldn’t win. With things as they were, the only thing she could do was die. “I will keep my friend, forever. And you will keep us safe.”

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“A brush of a fingertip followed the shape of her lips. “I will call you Quinn if it would make you smile for me again.”
“There is no Quinn without Que.”

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“Sovereign watched the little girl’s suffering, a black hole and something far more horrific than guilt left where a heart should have been. Her screams had been his anthem, the music of his enemies’ cries never loud enough to drown hers out.”

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“There was a building fever, the open flesh around the pipe red and puffed, horrid looking. But there were no mindless thoughts of stalking Sovereign.”

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“Her first word to him was, “hungry,” the Axirlan holding a sweet treat above her head where she could not reach it without either climbing him, which would require touching, or attacking to take it.
“Ask properly, child.”
“GIVE!”
In response, Que ate the treat right in front of her. She’d cried as if the world was going to end, kicking her legs as she rolled on the floor. “
🤣😭

“The huge white being let her scramble about his ship, hiding where she would, for years. All that time Sigil never spoke, but as cycles passed, she did begin to watch.”
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“seeing her filthy cheeks were grimy, marked, by old and new tear stains. Even he knew wild children do not weep for no reason.
Sigil learned the word mercy. ”


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“You built yourself a throne, you played queen?”
She had done that with supply crates at the vacant brigand outpost, made a court of skeletons to talk to. ”

🫂 my shayla

“She was sterile and she had not known until he’d put the realization of a long unfulfilled desire of his into her head.”

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