Trigger warning: Violence, graphic descriptions.

Part One—POV: The Assassin.

The room is silent.

Still, like a breath held too long.

I am still, yet my head reels, my thoughts crash and break like waves against stone. I did that.

The knife in my hand is heavier now, as if it has taken on the weight of what I’ve done. The tip drips red—his blood.

Oh, _gods_—

My gaze falls to the floor, to h...

Fledge looked down at the ground for a long moment, trying to decide what to do. Buzzy impatiently tapped her claw on the ground and said, “Well, what is it? What aren’t you telling me?”

Fledge hesitantly revealed the broken compass. Buzzy audibly gasped, realizing the weight of the situation. It would be much harder to get home now and they may never find their way back to their gentle Bell Buck...

(unfinished)

“Hurry up!” Kaili yelled at Violet, who was supposed to be the camera person for the movie they were trying to make. Everything was in place — the salt lamp was on the stand and Chloe and Avalene were waiting to begin their scene. Violet, however, had left and gone to the other room, mumbling something about needing her slippers.

Kaili stomped into the doorway, shouting: “Violet, ...

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As the tension in the square reached its peak, Sage Bishop, bound and facing the unjust trial, suddenly screamed out a single word, "KALISTAR!" Her voice echoed through the square, sending a shiver down our spines. It was a word imbued with power, her defiant last stand. The crowd gasped, and a hush fell over the scene as the significance of her c...

Rewire

Dopamine cabled addiction

Habits burned into my flesh

Paths of leavings and fire

Temptations of the world

Essence of night highs

Lens of false perspective

Avenging lost time

Eyes of magnetism

Cures their raining attack

For a moment, I feel no slack

But only for a moment

Sins of the lying tongue

Father gift me my pardon

Strengthen my mind

Armor of mine harden

Drips of pushung through

Hea...

It feels like she’s trying to read my mind

With the way she’s staring through my eyes

She asks questions with a reptilian smile

Everything thing I say gets jotted down

She reads meaning between every line

She’s convinced I’ve been traumatized

She’s coming up with another diagnosis

I can’t believe I’m paying for this...

Oh no

Eat bugs

I know, protein

But this is disgusting

It’s a delicacy in France

Yea, but not here!

Yuck!...

“Go on. If you want to leave with your friend you will have to give our dear princess a kiss.” His highness gestures to a white haired girl sitting on an ornate throne. Her jewels glittered like starlight against her pale skin.

He’s laughing at me. He knows I don’t like anything and he’s doing it again. This time I don’t really have a choice. Ser might have caused all of my problems as of late bu...

“What if we all just block him at the same time?” Esha suddenly broke the silence, leading to every gaze falling onto her.

“Yeah!” Randy shouted with unbridled passion, “Give him a taste of his own medicine and pretend his sorry ass never existed!”

Of course Val kept her mouth shut as this was discussed. Her mind drew to a blank as she stared at the river with a faraway look. She realized she sh...

He always hated going to the Doctors. If he could avoid Doctors forever he would but he knew that wasn’t a possibility now. He was in desperate need of money and had already done everything he could… last thing waiting for him now was getting his blood drawn. He hated needles, hate seeing blood, hated the sensation, hated how he always cried, hated the wait, hated everything. Yet the amount of mon...