In Defiance of Duty
In Defiance of Duty
“Up above, the sky was beginning to ease into a darker blue, and the skeleton staff they’d brought along to run the palace had already lit all the lights that hung like lanterns around the stone and iron perimeter.
Azrin never tired of this place. Of the mysterious echoes against the rocks. Of the way he seemed able to breathe deeper here, the air clear and sweet. Of the enchanted pools themselves, so deep and beautiful, no matter the season. They soothed him, even when he did no more than gaze ...upon them. He’d swum in them as a child, sat beside them as an adult, allowed them to work their quiet magic on his soul.
Tonight they made him believe that all of this would work out precisely the way he wanted it to work out. The way it should.
The way it must, he thought, and pretended he did not notice his own urgency.
He sensed her before he heard the faint scuff of her foot against the stone, and turned as she walked out onto the balcony, and then, after the slightest, barely perceptible hesitation, toward him.MoreLess
Azrin never tired of this place. Of the mysterious echoes against the rocks. Of the way he seemed able to breathe deeper here, the air clear and sweet. Of the enchanted pools themselves, so deep and beautiful, no matter the season. They soothed him, even when he did no more than gaze ...upon them. He’d swum in them as a child, sat beside them as an adult, allowed them to work their quiet magic on his soul.
Tonight they made him believe that all of this would work out precisely the way he wanted it to work out. The way it should.
The way it must, he thought, and pretended he did not notice his own urgency.
He sensed her before he heard the faint scuff of her foot against the stone, and turned as she walked out onto the balcony, and then, after the slightest, barely perceptible hesitation, toward him.MoreLess
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