Lucian's Undoing
“I want your trust because when the veil breaks—when the gods return—you won’t survive it alone.”
She stared at him, every fiber of her being resisting, snarling, burning.
But somewhere deep inside… a whisper of fear curled like smoke.
She wasn’t losing. But she wasn’t winning, either.
And something else was moving now.
Faster. Smarter. Crueler than even she’d imagined.
“I’ll consider it,” she said at last.
Daeval inclined his head. “That’s all I ask.”
He began to fade, his shape dissolving back into shadow. But just before he vanished completely, he said one final thing:
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