THE PRICE FOR HIS NAME
Samuel chuckled weakly, his laughter laced with a sharp wheeze.
“You didn’t stop him either.”
“I did,” Fiero said. “When I heard a bone break.”
Samuel didn’t argue. Didn’t care. He swayed, half-conscious, his head resting back against the sand as Fiero knelt beside him.
Then, slowly, Samuel’s lips parted again.
“You know…” he began, voice dry as rust, “everyone keeps calling me the crazy one. A demon. The problem.”
Fiero didn’t respond.
Samuel tilted his head just enough to catch a glimpse of him in the dark. The moonlight carved his grin into something almost too wide, something that didn’t look entirely human.
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