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STARRING- ASHERA TEPES AND KRUL TEPES

m.ock covers : mise en abyme

ILYA was first and foremost a bastard, and second and perhaps more importantly an assassin. Though his mind was sharp as his knives, he’d always be those two things before anything else. There’s nothing he cares about more than the brush of a sharp edge against someone’s skin - even his own. He’s never been picky. He’s just a boy and that boy has made his home between the spaces of the grooves of an arrow.

LIREYLE translates a promise from an ancient being, written in a forgotten ancient language and thinks: ah. There’s that moment, when you’re staring at the most important thing you’ve ever studied and it all clicks into place. When everything becomes clear. Lirelye looks at the promise and everything becomes clear. He’d do anything to keep those he loves safe. Even sell his soul. What’s a soul, compared to Alis?

ALIS meanders through her brother’s mind now and then, when the world gets too loud and everything is screaming. His mind is quieter. It makes her feel like they’re the same. Without him, Alis would just break. Alis is seven minutes older. She tells Lirelye that over and over, out of a sort of aching desperation. When you are Alis, every minute is a century. Whole lifetimes separating her from Lirelye.

WREN is running. His whole life he’s been running. There’s a beat in his chest that yearns for a home away from home, away from the duty he was born into, away from prying eyes and expectations. After all, you can’t escape what you’ve been born into, and you can’t change fate. He’s going to try, anyway.