The moment Nic escorts Anton and I back to my room I storm away from both of them.“Juniper!” Anton calls after me, frustrated and mad.“What happened?” Nic asks, baffled, as I stride into the bathroom.“Do you really want to know?” Anton asks, snappier than he usually is.Nic just laughs, but I don
I turn sharply, covering my face with my hands, not willing to let Anton see the tears in my eyes.He doesn’t say anything. Even if I can feel him still standing there, anger and shock and fear still racing through every bit of him, he doesn’t say a word.“Can you please just go?” I choke out as the
“No, June,” Anton says after a long moment. “Of course I don’t love her. I don’t even know her.”“But that’s not how mate stuff works,” I say, raising my eyes to his. “It’s supposed to be…instant.”“I don’t have a body,” he sighs, gesturing towards himself. “No body no bond.”I bite my lip for a sec
I perk up at this. “How do you know that?”“Oh, Beatrice is all air and sun,” she says with a sigh, looking over at them. “Whereas our ghost wolf is all darkness and stars. It’s…not favorable.”A little smirk comes to my lips. “Don’t you need their birthdays to know that?”“When one is as proficient
“What kind of test is this!?” I snarl, waving a hand up to the pillars. “Is it so important that the Queen of the Underworld be able to balance at great heights!?”“Watch yourself,” Death snarls, stepping close enough that I can hear his lowered voice as he glances around, ensuring that the courtier
The trial doesn’t last long.A collective gasp goes through the group and I scream soundlessly as Mahina suddenly stumbles and then shrieks as she tips too far to the side and plummets to the ground. I slap my hands to cover my face, already beginning to silently sob as I hear the sickening crack of
“Where’s her voice!?” Anton shouts the moment we arrive back in my room, glaring hard at Nic. He moves close to me, cupping my cheeks in his hands.“I – I don’t know,” Nic stumbles out, holding a hand up towards me. “Death took it – he can give it back – but –““Can you get it back for her!?”“It’s
And on those ladders, and stairs, and landings, are Priests. Priests everywhere, walking around in long grey robes, either putting books back or reading books or taking books from the shelves. And here on the ground floor – where we are – there are desks everywhere, spread with books and scrolls and