Dragoncrest Cliffs let me tell you that I saw your boyfriend walking down the road

reprisal would come. the only problem was sobeille didn’t know when it was coming.

lafayette fell to silence, earning passing approval rarer than veins of gold in stone for sobeille. she bowed her head as mireille stooped to kiss her, collecting lafayette with a voice flecked in steel.

long after sobeille dwelled in thought. she had failed in downing them both - many things she would change or do over, but none so satisfying to her as watching the burst capillaries in cygnet’s ruined eye; her own hideous reflecting wavering as the world within sundered, disintegrated, and at last burst into pulpy red matter.

sobeille would hold that image forever.