#((poor seth))

The Road is Long (and Home is Gone)

Chapter Nine: The Blood Dark of Blood (of Night)

Tracklist:

Track I: Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Lorde (welcome to your life / there’s no turning back) Track II: I Will Never Die by Delta Rae (in the dead of night / I’m gonna loose these chains) Track III: Go by Meg Myers (I’m sick of being your altar / leave me alone) Track IV: One Foot in Front of the Other by Emilie Autumn (I’ve been in chains since I was nothing but a kid / we don’t know freedom, not quite sure that we ever did) Track V: Grot by St. Vincent (and power doesn’t care how you feel / as long as you learn how to kneel) Track VI: A Poison Tree by Unwoman (and it grew both day and night / ’til it bore an apple bright) Track VII: Sweet Revenge by Rainee Blake (every scar you left on me, I’m gonna make a match / cut you with the dagger that you left in my back / honey, I ain’t even gotten even, so it ain’t the end) Track VIII: This Ain't No Hymn by Saint Saviour (I’ll follow someone I can see / I’ll worship someone I can be) Track IX: Seven Devils by Florence + The Machine (holy water / cannot help you now / a thousand armies / couldn’t keep me out / I don’t want your money / I don’t want your crown / see, I’ve come to burn / your kingdom down)

Excerpt:

She steps forward. “Did she flinch?” she asks. “When you touched her?” Seth freezes, remembering that moment in the labyrinth when Elena had shied away from his touch like a wounded animal backed into a corner. Slowly his eyes slide over to her, wondering how she could possibly know.  She smiles bitterly – knowingly. “A girl like that doesn’t flinch for just anybody,” she assures him. He thinks of her steady gun hand in their standoff in the RV, her cool, unemotional voice as she asked him if she seemed like a girl who bluffed. To tell the truth, she seemed like the kind of girl who didn’t shy away from much of anything.

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I loved the Secret Santa idea bc there’s so many of them it’d be chaotic: