The Devil's Broken Doll
They were a single colour to him: the washed-out grey of hopeless, breakable things.
And then— there.
Farther right, chin raised, eyes blazing in the torchlight, stood a girl who did not tremble.
She was taller than many of the others—slender but built like someone used to carrying burdens heavier than her own bones. Her dark hair—deep brown, almost black—fell in loose waves down her back, whipping in the wind like a banner. Her eyes, a cutting shade of storm-grey-blue, locked forward with the sharpness of a blade being drawn. Her skin was pale, but not fragile—more like marble left out in winter, beautiful because of the cold, not in spite of it. Her jaw was strong, her mouth defiant, her s
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