Rising Sun Valley skwila

her teeth were reaching for his face before he had finished his sentence, before heda could realize it; her body responded in instinct to a suitor pressing his luck, but mind reacted to the stranger's prolonged and specific cruelty.
the day of the deer hunt with persia was the first in a long while where her heart had not been so tamped down in grief, and this moment was similar: a scathe of fire that singed away all the hanging cobwebs of agony.
it did not matter if heda met her mark; she screamed and struck at him again, seeking to drive him back down the path she had not asked him to take.