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General Kirigan ([personal profile] cruelyethuman) wrote in [community profile] ximilialog 2022-10-23 06:25 pm (UTC)

It is. [Yet, there were not stories told about Heartrenders and they didn't spark fear in to the hearts of men the way his darkness did.

Darkness had a way of showing you your fears, a black mirror.

With all the horrors the otkazat'syan mind could conjure up and convict him for. As if any Grisha could influence the mind.]
They are looked on with suspicion. Scorn. Heartrender children are at greater risk of harm, but not with us.

[The Little Palace, the one place in the whole world where they could grow up without resenting their Small Science, without the carefully guarded looks and the hatred.]

I suppose love can be that. [Even when his own heart drums an unsteady tattoo of Alina, Alina, Alina, the twisting sickness that comes from the weakness she inspires in him.] Fleeting, deadly and worth it.

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