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my fingers know letters, my eyes cannot read, and i have written 643 words. i am not good at being a writer. i am going to keep doing it anyway.

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WHEN A MAN SAYS HE WANTS HIS FAVOURITE FEMALE CHARACTER TO STEP ON THEM, NO ONE BATS AN EYE, BUT WHEN I SAY I WANT TO KISS, HOLD, FUCK, SUCK AND CUDDLE A HOT DEPRESSED OLD MAN, SOCIETY CALLS ME WEIRD 💔

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It’s just me and my 35 WIPs against the world

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this blog is not a well-curated museum. it’s my bedroom & i’m putting things on my shelf & taping things on the wall

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Prologue: Varos (pt 2)

Her hand clamped down like a vice, her nails digging in enough to almost be painful, but I still didn’t move until the Captain of the Royal Guard almost trampled us both into the soil.             “What the—Princess!! You should be hiding inside with your parents! Why are you…?” His eyes found me and his mouth closes as a clang of metal next to us scared Tenielle enough to bump into me. She clung to my arm now, but her eyes never left the battle happening nearby.             Something inside me was breaking, crumbling open to something much darker as I continued to watch her world be ruined right before her eyes. I grit my teeth.             “Boy!” yelled the Captain as he pushed me harshly against the chest, wrenching our hands apart. “You’re going to injure the princess, Skur. BELHAM! Escort the princess inside! NOW!”             I didn’t have time to react to the name the old man threw at me. The dark skin on my hands and forearms was something I couldn’t change, but the way my nails had lengthened into sharp talons was and I realized my mistake almost instantly.             Another guard, presumably Belham, rushed out of the small number of guards who had stayed beside the Captain and grabbed Tenielle firmly by her arm.             “No! I won’t leave Bear. What about him? He’s going to get hurt!”             She leaned away from the guard, scratching at his gauntlet as it bruised into her skin where he held her. She kept looking at me as if I was supposed to be the one to save her. Maybe I was supposed to, but the moment I took a step forward to get his hands off her, his free one was on me, pushing me away harder this time until I tripped back into a sprawl on the grass.             “Get out of here, boy. This is no place for children,” Belham spit as the princess continued to fight him. He growled and stooped down, picking her up to carry on his shoulder, foregoing all formality as he began to make his way inside.             “No! Let me go! You must bring him too! Bear!”             She was hysterical now, her tears falling onto the back of the guards’ armor like rain, and her hands battered his shoulders, and her legs kicked, and despite the fighting around her, she truly just looked like the spoiled brat I thought she was when we first met.             “Bear! You need to go get him! Let me down now!”             Another part of the wall came down in a fiery roar as the fight was now split in two; this was exactly what they wanted. To divide the fight and thin the defense.             My hands balled up at my sides but I couldn’t leave her, so I rushed past the Captain towards the glass doors and was met kindly with a backhand that dropped me to my knees.             “Get out of here!” but the guard took an arrow to the break in his armor and fell flat in the dirt beside me.             I didn’t move; I tasted blood, my eyes were starting to burn from the smoke of the fires and my ears were ringing so loudly that I almost couldn’t hear Tenielle as she continued to scream past the garden doors, the guard disappearing around the corner of the hall as she called out my name for the last time.             “No! Varos!”             I pushed to my feet and ran towards the part of the wall that hadn’t been destroyed, my back pressed to it as I tried to hide away in the shrubbery planted there. My eyes were on the garden doors, to where I saw my friend for the last time.             ‘I should have been the one to protect her. I should have been the one to hide us both somewhere that nobody could hurt her.’             I grit my teeth and shrink lower into the leaves as more enemies began to filter into the gardens, the royal guards now overwhelmed as the enemy seemed to appear out of thin air.             A cry tore through the sounds of battle around me and I watched as a small ball of fire passed through the castle doors and disappeared inside. The polished walls of the castle erupted outward in a burst of light and my world was gone in an instant.

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Prologue: Varos

She’d been chasing me with a grasshopper in her hand when the first explosion ripped through the village outside the castle walls.             It was like the world stopped spinning. Just a large spool of black smoke cutting the sky into two pieces: one where the sun was still shining and the other where it was already red with the fires of the towns.             Tenielle could hear the screaming, and it had scared her enough that she dropped the cursed bug in her head which instead jumped back into her face, scaring her out of her trance.             “What’s going on?”             I didn’t have an answer at the time. I didn’t even know what was going on. I was eleven. I wasn’t supposed to learn that my town was being burned and pillaged until later.             “I don’t know.” Another explosion of fire as another house went up like kindling.             She had never shown fear before. There wasn’t much to fear when you were the heir to the strongest family. Her hands were holding her stomach now, like she was going to be sick on the spot and she was crying.             The guards on the walls were yelling now. Archers were drawing bows, and the town was screaming more, and my parents were still there. I swallowed bile.             “We need to get you somewhere safe, Elle,” I told her, and she knew it—I hoped she knew it—and I grabbed her hand to pull her with me to hide and she didn’t look away from the black sky so I had to yank her arm to get her to move.             There was shouting coming from the castle now.             I tugged Elle closer to me as we moved to the garden doors and I could see the guards rushing around inside, shouting to each other as maids and random tutors were pushed out of the way as they were rushing to hide as well.             A third explosion sounded, but this time one of the towers of the castle started to crumble down as the wall gave way to the blast.             I halted to a stop and spun on my heel, forcing Tenielle back as I began to move away from the blast into the garden again. There had to be someplace to hide her, someplace to keep her safe from what was very obviously turning out to be a raid on the kingdom’s capital.             “Shit.”             “Bear, don’t let go, okay?"

Her hand grasped mine for dear life as we both watched the hole in the wall clear of dust and smoke, as the Royal Guard stormed into the gardens to buffer the attack.             “Don’t let go?!”             There was fighting now, men screaming and falling on both sides as more people attempted to get through. We hadn’t moved. I was locked in place, trying to think of somewhere to hide, somewhere to protect her. Guards were passing us now, rushing out of the large glass doors with swords drawn and shields at the ready.             They looked as terrifying as the enemies destroying our home.