It was just one of those things. Richard was still trying to explain, and failing. Do they? Do they really, ma petite? There was an edge of humor, but it held darker things. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.
We got a couple of good blows in, enough to make Nathaniel shiver in his chains. Never let them see that they've hurt you. I'd never met her in physical person, but I'd met her metaphysically, and that had been bad enough. His eyes had bled to midnight blue light, as if the darkest of water held starlight in it.
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