“You should take one of the clues, my love.”
“Don’t call me—”
“Careful, darling.” Quick as a snake, he pressed two firm fingers to Tella’s bruised lips. “You don’t want to destroy the beautiful deception we’ve just created. Now,” he said sweetly, “give my fingers a kiss for everyone still watching.”
Tella bit them instead. They tasted like frost and wishes gone wrong.
She expected him to pull away, for his sharp face to fill with color and his words to turn ugly and angry. But Jacks just left his cold fingers in her mouth, pressing them against her teeth and her tongue. Her stomach filled with lead, as something purely evil shimmered in his unearthly eyes.
“I’ll let you get away with this for now, but this is my last mercy.” He brushed his fingers over the spot where he’d bitten her lip, before pulling them from her mouth. “If you do not win Caraval and bring me Legend before Elantine’s Day, you’ll learn just how deadly my kisses really are.”
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“Relax,” he repeated. “The only thing you should think about is that you’re more desirable than anyone else in this room. Every person here wishes they were you.”
“You’re definitely giving yourself too much credit now.”
His laughter was surprisingly disarming. “Then tell yourself everyone wishes they were me, dancing with you.”
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Tolkien used the linguistic potency of myth to heighten the realism and density of his stories, providing a bridge between the remote past of Middle-earth and the epoch in which his tales took place. Hence, in The Lord of the Ring, the elves and Elvish-speaking figures sing songs dedicated to Beren, Earendil and other legendary heroes and heroines; a soldier of Gondor says "May the Valar turn him aside" when attacked by a Mumak; Frodo says "By Elbereth and Luthien the fair, you shall have neither the ring nor me!" when threatened by the ring-wraiths; the name "Eibereth Gilthoniel" is used, variously, as a desperate shield by Frodo on Weathertop, a war-cry by Sam in Cirith Ungol, and an expletive of despair by Legolas at the sight of a winged NazgUI on the banks of Anduin; in the dark of Moria, Aragorn says of Gandalf: "He is surer of finding the way home in a blind night than the cats of Queen Beruthiel"; and so on.
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Jacks and Tella????
Tella stopped mid-kick. His heart was beating.
She stumbled back and he let her go.
"You have a heartbeat."
𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛: ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟-ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠.
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He wasn’t entirely human, or human at all. He was something magical, something other, something wrong. A Fate.
And she had kissed him.
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