#editmine

“jordie was lying next to him, staring at the sky.                           “don’t leave me,” kaz wanted to say, but he was too tired. so he laid his head on jordie’s chest.”

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“you’re a thief, kaz.” “isn’t that what i just said?”

“jesper figured there had to be at least one hundred mister crimsons flooding the bridge and the stave, singing the chant that accompanied his entrance in any of the komedie brute plays, tossing coins into the air. sometimes the coins were real. it was why he was a crowd favorite. people were laughing, whirling each other around, grabbing for coins, chasing after the mister crimsons as the stadwatch tried in vain to keep order. it was glorious.”

song: you should see me in a crown, by billie eilish

“wylan understood then that he would never reach the school in belendt. he’d never been meant to. there was no secretary. no account in his name. no one was expecting his arrival. the supposed enrollment papers in his pocket might say anything at all. wylan hadn’t even bothered to try to read them. he was going to disappear, just as his father had always wanted, and he’d hired these men to do the job. (...) black spots filled wylan’s vision. he thought he could hear music”

“alliances shifted this way and that in the barrel, but your gang was your family, the only protection that mattered.”

song: work song, by hozier