What Lies Beyond the Veil

“There is beauty in knowing who you are, and in embracing that in spite of the potential consequences”

“I assure you, I do not give the first fuck what is normal when it comes to you. If you want to watch the world burn, I’ll set it on fire for you. If you want to slaughter every woman who has ever taken what is yours, then I will gladly sit back and watch you play,”

“I’ll be your God any day, my star,”

“I felt you live and die for countless lives, felt every one of your life cycles end and grieved the woman I never got to meet. I know you, because you are the other half of me.” Those foreign blue eyes bled to black as he stared at me, and his magic hummed between us. “You are my mate, Estrella, and nothing will come between us now that I have you at my side.”

“You’re so pretty until you speak,” I said, smiling at him sweetly. “Do try not to ruin it.”

“Come out and play with me, my star. I know you’re in there somewhere, burning away where you think no one can see you. Imagine how brightly you’d shine if you embraced all that fire.”

“Never hesitate to own your love for them, and to make it known that you miss them every day.”

“One should always remember that history is written by the victor.”

“There is beauty in knowing who you are, and in embracing that in spite of the potential consequences.”

“No, Little One. I’m going to love you,” he said, touching his forehead to mine. His dark eyes glimmered, tiny specks of light shining in the obsidian, like the stars that had become my namesake. “Until you forget what it is to hurt and then long after that. Until the scars you wear like armor have faded from memory, and only we remain.”

“Who the fuck hurt you?” he growled, his chest rattling in front of my face as I stared up into his obsidian eyes. Something shifted on his face, a rage like I’d never seen taking over as he gritted his teeth when I didn’t give him the answer he demanded. “Who?”

“For the ones who find freedom in the dark.”

“I touched my fingertips to one of the scars in the center of his spine, feeling his body still at my touch. “Who did this to you?” I asked, my voice sounding softer and more broken than I’d ever heard it.”

“I’d never forget the look on his face, the absolute rage on my behalf. My family had loved me, but they’d never promised vengeance for me. No one had ever cared the way he did. That terrified me.”

“I wasn’t strong enough to stand on my own, and I wasn’t sure I ever would be.”

“I was so fucking tired of being a victim. Of being treated like I was less than the men around me,”

“You and the basilisk in your trousers stay right there, thank you very much,” I said, snapping to attention the moment he came closer.He stopped the moment I uttered the command, his face lighting with amusement. “I’m not wearing any trousers.”“And that is the problem. I like my intestines in my stomach and not shoved into my lungs. You just keep that thing away from me,” I said, watching as he chuckled and looked at me as if I’d grown a second head.“I can’t say that I’ve ever heard that one before. Usually women ask me to introduce them to the Gods,” he said.(Estrella and Caelum talking)”

“I would burn the world to the ground and lay it at your feet if you so much as asked it of me, and yet you give me nothing. You’ve never once told me that you feel the same way I do.”

“wondering how my savior had somehow become a morally gray man with no boundaries and a distinct lack of understanding how an actual courtship worked.”

“For you, I can be downright fucking filthy, Estrella, and you will love every Gods damned second of it,”

“The next time a man like the Lord of Mistfell tries to put his hands on you without your permission, you stab him in the fucking throat,”

“He’d be the death of me. If I didn’t kill him first.”

“Because the one and only man I’d ever allowed to touch me had turned into a pile of snow when he tried to kill me. It was safe to say, my vagina was unfortunately off limits.”

“When the time comes, you’ll take all of it and beg me to fuck you harder, Little One.” [Caelum said.]”

“I want to worship you like you’re my Goddess.”

“Who the fuck hurt you?”

“I’m not wearing any trousers.” “And that is the problem. I like my intestines in my stomach and not shoved into my lungs.”

“Oh!” she said, glancing out the side of her eye to where Jensen stared at me. “We tend to be more…open in our relationships. You should probably be ready to bathe him in piss if you want the other girls to know they aren’t able to take him for a ride,” she said, a teasing lilt coming into her voice. I didn’t have any desire to mark my territory. Okay, I did, but I didn’t want to have to. Any man who couldn’t be trusted to label himself as off-limits wasn’t worth my energy.”

“The real question was what would remain of me when it was all over with.”

“Jealous, Little One?” he asked, raising an eyebrow at me as he took another step. “Why don’t you help me erase the memory of the ones who came before you?”