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Chapter 19 was a doozy of a chapter 😮‍💨😳🫣

“I trust that you’ll protect me.” Then she put her hands together like she was holding her sword and started thrusting into the air. “Plus, I’ll just stab them if they try to take me.”
Orpheus chuckled brightly.
“You are strange, my little doe.”

AHHHHH WHAT CUTIES

“I wish to know more about this. If there are humans that are willing to be our companions, ones that do not make us hungry, then I would like one.”

AHHHHH I’m so excited to read his book

So Orpheus and the Duskwalker from the next book are talking. And he found Reia and now wants a human for himself! I love when they’re all interconnected 🥰

He wanted to trust her, he wanted to believe that she’d stay while he was gone, but he didn’t.
She already left me. His heart withered whenever he remembered.
I want it to be her.

😭

She’d also helped him. During the time he had his first human, the one he’d built this home for, the Witch Owl had come to him. She was the one who told him of the salt circle and the protection charm trinkets. She was the one who informed him if she willingly gave him her soul – since it could not be taken – then his human would live with him always, safe even in the Veil without his protection.

🤔

“Would it please you if I brought you a hive so you could get honey? There are some just outside the Veil. Demons don’t like them because they sting when attacked.”
“Yes, it would.”
“Then I will bear being stung to get you honey.”

Orpheus HATES pain. And he’s will to get stung for her 😍

“Well, flour comes from wheat, and honey comes from bees.”
“What are bees?”
“You are talking of those stinging bugs. They hurt my tongue. Why would you add them to food? They don’t particularly taste good.”

I absolutely love Orpheus 🥰

I find it absolutely adorable when Orpheus is curious about basic human knowledge, obviously he’s not human so he wouldn’t know but still. Like how Reia is cooking dinner for herself and Orpheus is watching her and he noticed that she’s cutting the carrots big and then said “Hmm. They have different tastes when cooked and not cooked? I thought it was only to change their firmness.” Which was is cute 🥰

“I do not want you to leave me, Reia. You are beautiful. And your personality is shiny. I have missed many humans that have left, but I like you more than any other that has come here. Even if you safely make it out of the Veil, you will be gone.”

😭😭