We’ve fought together many times over the years (yes, even against common foe) and have learned to protect each other’s backs without accidentally decapitating one another.We swing our long swords in syncopation, the blades slicing through the narrow joint between the bodies and heads of the firs...
Why is Zilpha talking about this? Doesn’t she like Ed? Why would she reject him? It would hurt his feelings even more on top of the way I’ve let him think I don’t care for him…and how can she reject him, after I’ve let him think that about me specifically so he’d draw closer to her? &...
Every whistle of the wind, every tree branch creaking in the night sends my uneasy dreams scrambling into nightmares of bats and blood and thirsty vampires. At four in the morning, I’m shocked awake by a clattering noise that goes silent as my eyes snap open. &...
Not that there are too many surprises—Ram effectively told me the gist of it. But hearing it from my father, who lived it and loved her, something settles in the pit of my stomach—the determination to see her dreams fulfilled, to carry on her legacy, and all that.My father brings in meat and we e...
While Mom and Felix finish with the dishes, I volunteer to go outside and make sure our cooking fires are fully extinguished. Ion follows me. I shoot a look at my mom to see if she’s going to do anything to prevent the two of us from spending time alone together. She sends...