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est.   dec   2022.   lastly  ,                    penned   by   mariah    ( she/her   &&   25+   )          CAARD .

            he ducked both their heads      further down the broken stone fence , ensuring that the several ( angry ) roaring voices and their thundering footsteps would all unknowingly pass shortly . alina was wanted and because he associated with her , he was easily put high up on the list of people to capture . ───────── hence why he needed wylan , someone to make a big spectacle of things as a distraction  .        ❝         to be fair ──── when you said explosive , i didn't know i had to be more than thirty feet back .         ❞ mal had gotten too close to the proverbial sun and had knocked the wind out of him .

                              his frustration stemmed      from the possible issue that he thought after all they had been through ───── they were at least friends enough to where they weren't aimlessly risking one another's lives  . ❝ not sure if it would've ruined anything if you just let me in on the plan . ❞ regardlessly so it proved him wrong when he came walking away with several wounds now adorning his body and nikolai looking like the poster boy for perfect health .        ❝         how are you alright with tossing people to the wolves ?         ❞

                                        and he lets out a chuckle ,      thus only to cough up more of that crimson of which filled up the cavity in his chest  .         ❝         tell me how right i am ────────         ❞ the agony bites at his body when he attempts to adjust himself even in the most slightest of ways ( he may be dying but he'd like to remain semi comfortable ) . ❝ ──────── when we see each other again , yeah ? ❞ dwindling so is he overtaken by a cooling numb . everything is blurry and far away now , him swearing that as he continued to spare a glance at her and the sky ; it had become brighter than it ever was .

                                        ❝ well , my heart      is what got me this far and what got alina the other two amplifiers  . ❞ if it wasn't for the so called idiot in his chest , his trust and hope would've never pushed them this far in the right direction and he definitely wouldn't be standing here with a new found familial connection .        ❝         cut me some slack ───────────── we can't all be you .         ❞

                                        once more he's found himself      with a busted lip knelt down in the freshly wet mud , hiding behind a couple of barrels ( pulling lark alongside him , regrettably so ) just to avoid whatever enemies nikolai had managed to make during his run . if there was one thing he should've told him ──────── it should've been the mention of a few groups of people who didn't particularly like the pirvateer's name being tossed around . [ . . . ] apparently some folks preferred pirates over the legal kind  .        ❝         didn't realize i had beef with men three times my size .         ❞