The Goblin King
“In front of her was the old cardboard box that she’d pulled out from under his bed. Roan watched as her fingers traced the letters scrawled in black marker on the flap. He curled his hand. His fingers had traced the same path, those same eight letters countless times. Thank you.
In nearly two thousand years only one person had ever thanked him for answering a summon. He’d defeated armies, killed princes, stolen treasure, yet his greatest achievement had been breaking up a teenager’s out-of-...control party and saving Eliza from unwanted attention. In that night he had been more human than he’d been in five hundred years. It wasn’t the words of her wish that had drawn him, but the desperation in the young woman’s voice to do something. That girl, now grown, turned.
Eliza jumped up. “That night really happened.”
Roan looked at the box, the bedsheets pulled back and the open chest. Only his clothing in the drawers remained untouched by her hand.MoreLess
In nearly two thousand years only one person had ever thanked him for answering a summon. He’d defeated armies, killed princes, stolen treasure, yet his greatest achievement had been breaking up a teenager’s out-of-...control party and saving Eliza from unwanted attention. In that night he had been more human than he’d been in five hundred years. It wasn’t the words of her wish that had drawn him, but the desperation in the young woman’s voice to do something. That girl, now grown, turned.
Eliza jumped up. “That night really happened.”
Roan looked at the box, the bedsheets pulled back and the open chest. Only his clothing in the drawers remained untouched by her hand.MoreLess
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