The Never King (Vicious Lost Boys Book 1)

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To the west were forested mountains where, at night, she had noticed the occasional crackle of magic, but by daybreak there were no signs of what might have caused it. But the reports told him nothing more than he could see for himself: grim men, standing bored and constantly on the edge of violence.

This was a red heat he had suppressed, until suppression had become habit, and habit had become his character. Little pixie bugs glow bright yellow amongst the leaves that remain and whenever I see that glow, it reminds me of Tink and it makes me angry all over again. Tell me about him,” I ask her as I peel the crust from the top of the sandwich and eat it like a length of spaghetti.

There was a dark flood of barbarian tribes from the north making forays into the Plains of Mica, their armies streaming forth into the northern reaches of Stravimon. He questioned Krund subtly about the prisoners but his cellmate knew next to nothing about individuals. Today is my 18th birthday and every Darling woman that has come before me has disappeared on this day. I take a swig, let the alcohol roll around on my tongue before swallowing it back, let the burn settle in. As a relatively new inmate, Davlor could not know of the sheer effort to keep some form of peace among the gangs, otherwise there would be blood every day.

He must be sitting on a stool at my bedside because he’s decidedly sitting but with no chair in sight. It made Elysia more determined than ever to spend time practising the more physical arts, lest she turn into someone like Yvindris.

She won’t speak his name when she’s awake, but at night, when she dreams, sometimes she’ll wake up screaming it. He is my mother’s urban legend come to life and I don’t know what to do with him now that he’s here. The inmates were allowed to mix only once a day, which gave Landril just a small sliver of time in which to find his target.