Epilogue
It ends with two souls who create a future together. MAX T he years go down easy. Tisaanah and I build a beautiful little house— bigger than a cottage, this time—in the center of a sprawling garden, and within it, we build a life. At first, every day is long and arduous. We are […]
Chapter no 126 – TISAANAH
T he time came, eventually, that I had been dreading. The final Alliance ships were leaving for Threll, and Serel, of course, would need to be on them. We had spent a lot of time together over this last month. In the wake of the battle, we’d held each other in sheer euphoric delight that we […]
Chapter no 125 – MAX
T he weeks passed slowly and yet still too damned fast, a haze of effort and exhaustion and confusion and… fragile, young dreams. I had never minded throwing myself into work. It distracted me from the aches and pains that still plagued me, and distracted me from the worst of the emotions that lingered under the […]
Chapter no 124 – TISAANAH
1 WEEK LATER M eajqa Sai’Ess looked very much like his father. I had seen him before, in passing, but never as close as this. He, Max and I sat in the Palace drawing room for hours. The topic was, of course, the only one anyone was talking about this week: What now? That was a […]
Chapter no 123 – TISAANAH
I was lying in a field of gold, looking up at a star-scattered sky. I smelled oranges. I smelled dry, salty air, clean and crisp. My home. I knew it immediately. My home as I had known it when I was young. “It’s time to get up, my love.” There was no question in my mother’s […]
Chapter no 122 – TISAANAH
D eath is a door. In the darkness, I watch Caduan’s silhouette stand at its threshold. I cannot see what lies beyond it, but I know that there is something there. As I hover on the edge of nothing and everything, terror clenches me. I think of honey, and music, and the way a million other […]
Chapter no 121 – TISAANAH
I felt it all fall apart. I looked up and saw the sky in shreds of light above me. I had made a horrible mistake. I had failed, and I had handed Aefe— Reshaye—everything she needed to end the world. I slipped from consciousness with this final thought, draped over Max’s unmoving body. But then— The […]
Chapter no 120 – AEFE
S he was wrong. She was wrong about everything. She was wrong that I could not save him. She was wrong. I held the shards so tight that blood pooled in my palm. Caduan looked up at me as I approached him. In one hand was the glowing amber of creation. In the other was the […]
Chapter no 119 – TISAANAH
T he floors had been flat. There had been no stairs. Yet, somehow, we had been traveling down. When we reached the end of the hallway, I knew without doubt that we were underground. It was so dark that the light only came from below, seeping up between the cracks in the floor. Before us was […]
Chapter no 118 – TISAANAH
M ax was bleeding so, so much. That was all I could see. The moment my eyes landed on all that blood, I didn’t care about the Fey king or the Lejaras or the war or the end of the world. I only cared about him. I fell to my knees beside him. I could barely […]
