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Alcina looks around the room that she calls her own and yet hasn't spent a night in for weeks and bites her lip.She decides not to pack, not yet.Not before she speaks with Brendan.* * * * * * * * * *Alcina freezes when she hears the telltale click of the door.She looks up and finds Brendan entering the room with a blank expression on his face. An odd sensation of relief sweeps through her veins after having gone so long without seeing him.And when had two days become a long time?"Brendan," Alcina breathes, standing up to greet him. "Brendan, did you hear? About the-""Yes," Brendan murmurs. He smiles that wan, empty smile that Alcina is growing to loathe. "You can go home, now."Alcina falters.Something aches with a sharp pang. Alcina swallows down the bile, and that tiny, foolish part of her that surges forth, with something as ridiculous as-- I'd thought this was my home.Definitely, valiantly, ignores that trembling, irrational part of her that flits dangerously close to--
My little Dragon Queen Chapter 47
Alcina is busy packing - if packing means angrily, slightly hysterically, shoving every item she owns into her numerous suitcases. She tries not to fall apart at the seams each time her hand stumbles over something Brendan had purchased for her.And there’s so much of it, and Alcina can’t stop thinking of how stupid she’d been, intoxicated with the delusion that any of it meant anything.The dragons are safely tucked in their own trunk, to be handled with care, empty save for small cushions and a silk sheet lining. The last time Alcina had checked on them, they’d made a comfortable nest of the space, and that had been that.Her bedroom door opens, and Alcina whirls around, head brimming with too many thoughts that are too loud.As it is, she’s still clutching onto the handkerchiefs Brendan had re-purchased for her with a manic sort of vigor that belies a person very, very on edge.It’s Alfred, evidently having finished the last of the discussions.“So,” Alcina clears her throat, arm l
My little Dragon Queen Chapter 48
Nordin is a man not unlike the most terrifying force in the world when there is something he has set his sights on.For the past half-year, said sights have been set on the one and only horizon of- free Alcina from the damnation that is her betrothal to the man so vile they call him the Shadowed Beast.As it is, there is nothing short of a tornado that could stop him now, when he is finally, finally able to put the gears into motion. He has already assembled their entire entourage within an hour, saddled and ready to depart.Yes, the plan had initially been to stay for a gracious and cordial three-day stay, during which they would leisurely cement the final details of the alliance before setting back for the Heartlands.But when Nordin had arrived and laid eyes on that figure, they called Alcina’s betrothed apprehension had grown in his chest, unbidden. Nordin saw how Brendan’s dark gaze always fixed on Alcina, as though they could not bear to look away.Nordin needs to get Alcina out
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As the carriages pull out, Brendan walks away, unable to quite stomach the sight of it.The idea of returning to his room - empty, devoid of any indication that Alcina had ever been there at all, as though she were simply one long, poignant dream - is similarly unbearable.So Brendan goes to find Lincoln in the hopes of a night spar. He finds the Commander in the training courtyard, alone, sitting casually on the small steps leading down.A rhythmic, sharp sound - like metal grating against stone - repeats, over and over, growing louder as Brendan approaches him.He pauses.“...Are you sharpening your swords? In the dark?”Lincoln looks up at him, the moonlight glinting eerily off both his blade and his clean white teeth from his grin.Brendan is, not for the first time, mildly disturbed. That they call him the frightening nightmare is laughable, given that Lincoln regularly makes Brendan pause in wary silence.“It is good practice, my lord.”Brendan eyes him dubiously. “Practice, fo
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Nordin is still glancing at Alcina with a worrying gaze every few moments when the carriages screech to a halt.There’s a loud clamor outside as men and horses alike shout and whinny with surprise, confusion, and fright, filling the air with a terrifying din.It would appear, from the sounds, that theirs is not the only carriage that has stopped. And, inexplicably, the world seems darker outside the windows, somehow, despite it already being night.Nordin glances sharply out the windows himself, trying to glean what is happening.“Why have we stopped?” he demands loudly to the coachmen. “Uh-” comes the panicked, vaguely confused voice of their driver. “I- I am not certain, my lord- just that- we cannot seem to move-”Alfred sits back in his seat. “It is Lord Warner,” he says with surety. He has just sensed his mind in the proximate area.Brendan, the man who can bring an entire battalion to a screeching halt with his Gift that controls the shadows of every mortal.Alcina freezes. And
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"Stay."Alcina jerks.Her blood rushes in her ears as if suddenly coursing with fire in her veins.She stares, stunned, eyes wide and lips parted. "...What?" Brendan, eyes blazing with something, takes a step forward. And like an unfathomable, unexplainable pull, Alcina, too, takes a faint step forward in turn."Stay," Brendan repeats quietly, but it's deafening all the same for Alcina.Alcina, who can feel that prickling behind her eyes again, that electric current buzzing underneath her skin. Her heart pounds painfully in her chest with a vigor that takes her breath away. She stares at Brendan--the man who'd told her she was special and called her mine, the man who Alcina had wanted, more than anything, to keep her--who'd then told her to leave, discarding her like the spare that Alcina had been raised to be."You're late," comes the words, tremulous and just a tad petulant, despite the wet glimmer in her eyes and the red flush on her nose and cheeks. Brendan's lips curve into a
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"It really is very discourteous to be so late, you know," Alcina sniffs, tears steadily trickling down her cheeks."My most heartfelt apologies," Brendan says, and Alcina snorts."And what were you going to do if you hadn't made it in time?" Alcina digs her chin into Brendan's shoulder like a particularly petulant huff. If you had let me go, and I had made it all the way back to the Heartlands, with an entire kingdom in between us; if you had let me go, and I had left?Brendan's smile is somehow both calm and disastrous at the same time, like the gaze of a man who, incomprehensibly, is calmly prepared to tear entire kingdoms asunder in his path.It's a magnitude of affection Alcina has never been privy to before and one she doesn't quite understand nor know how to receive."Something as trivial as time and space is not sufficient deterrents," Brendan murmurs. Alcina feels her eyes prickle once more."I would have come for you," he says simply.As though it were as simple as the words
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“And? So you are going to stay here?” Nordin leans forward from his seat at the table, voice incredulous.When the grand House of Clair procession had promptly returned, right back to the gates of House Warner, Alpha Warner had come shuffling out in confusion.Before Nordin even had a chance to protest, Brendan had led his father aside and quietly informed him that Lady Alcina of House Clair would, in fact, be staying.In the Western Plains, and the arranged betrothal as planned.To say Alpha Warner had been exuberant would be an understatement.An alliance forged on mutual needs is satisfactory, but just barely; in the uncertainty of wartime, shaky political alliances will not do.The permanent, immutable allegiance forged by marriage is infinitely preferable to that predicated by something as trivial as coexisting mutual need.By the time Nordin had managed to dashboard the carriage, Alpha Warner had already swept cheerfully back into the castle to begin making preparations for the
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