Maggie Rapier

His pride cloaked their shoulders; mine still ache with the force of his grip

I know that I’m going to tear through his world like an arrow through flesh, and he will bear those scars for the rest of his days. I will steal his rest, and he will rob me of mine.

We are going to break each other.

It’s a myth—a lie—but one I could believe is true by the mere power of her words

Can you find things?”

“I found you, didn’t I?”

He drapes himself against the tree like it’s a throne, a slight smirk banishing the dark from his eyes

. “I’ve searched half the world looking for you, lass.”

“What if…I’m not a legend? What if I’m a cautionary tale?”

Faolan’s triumphant smile flickers. “Sorry?”

I take another step—closer this time. Until I swear I could hear his heartbeat if I concentrated hard enough. “The reason my eyes shift colors. The…ocean trapped inside them. It doesn’t mean anything good; it’s just…”

A crack in the earth hiding a collapsed cavern below? The first stroke of green in a sky already swirling with storms. It’s a warning bell—a witness to a coming death. A calling card to it as well.

Well. You’ve got your wish—a leash on the Wolf of the Wild.

Should a dagger strike toward your heart, let it be my body that meets it first.

Faolan looks as though he wishes time were a creature he could charm into turning back