Shalador's Lady
“This is where you are, she’d said.
Not whole. Not fully formed. Not who he could have been.
The fire dance celebrated the Shalador males’ sexual and emotional maturity—and acknowledged their willingness to accept adult responsibilities as well as adult pleasures. Would this dance really make a difference in the way Cassie saw him?
Would it make a difference in the way he saw himself?
When the time comes, accept the fire that lives within you.
Brushing a finger over the globe again, he thought, ...It’s time. Win or lose, it’s time.
He’d been twenty-two when he’d made the Offering to the Darkness. Something inside him had swelled and pushed at him, demanding release, demanding that he open himself to his mature potential. But he’d been too emotionally damaged to endure that grueling test of Self, and instead of embracing the dark glory that could have been his, he’d fled from it—and had ended up with a Purple Dusk Jewel that was a little darker than his Birthright Purple Dusk.MoreLess
Not whole. Not fully formed. Not who he could have been.
The fire dance celebrated the Shalador males’ sexual and emotional maturity—and acknowledged their willingness to accept adult responsibilities as well as adult pleasures. Would this dance really make a difference in the way Cassie saw him?
Would it make a difference in the way he saw himself?
When the time comes, accept the fire that lives within you.
Brushing a finger over the globe again, he thought, ...It’s time. Win or lose, it’s time.
He’d been twenty-two when he’d made the Offering to the Darkness. Something inside him had swelled and pushed at him, demanding release, demanding that he open himself to his mature potential. But he’d been too emotionally damaged to endure that grueling test of Self, and instead of embracing the dark glory that could have been his, he’d fled from it—and had ended up with a Purple Dusk Jewel that was a little darker than his Birthright Purple Dusk.MoreLess
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