Karthikeya

“I've got two knives that are cast in bronze/ they pierce all the way to the soul/ they draw you in with the promise of sin/ like the moth to the flame to the coal

I've got hair like the starless night / it sticks to my lips when I smile / I'll wind it with yours and we'll drift of course/ in a ship touching hearts all the while

For they way I walk is a lantern lit/ that leads you into the night/ I'll hold you close and love you the most/ until our end is in sight”
― F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi

“It wasn’t the reaction Rangi was looking for, but Kyoshi swelled with a sudden happiness. She couldn’t help it. Rangi acting so completely, utterly normal tugged on a rope connected directly to her heart. It always would.”
― F.C. Yee, Avatar: The Shadow of Kyoshi

“I’m sorry for saying you had to live with your pain.” Kyoshi put her palm to his chest in a gesture of comfort. “Because you won’t.” The cold she sent through his body formed a tunnel of ice between his ribs. It happened so fast, and with so much force, the moisture in the air behind him turned to frost. His back sprouted vaporous wings of crystal that disappeared just as quickly. With his heart and lungs frozen solid, Yun fell to the side. Kyoshi took the hand with which she’d killed one of the two people she’d loved and placed it against the wound of the other. Water. She needed more water. Her tears of light weren’t enough.”
― F.C. Yee, Avatar: The Shadow of Kyoshi

“I dedicated my life to people like you,” Yun said. He couldn’t tell if he was laughing, crying, croaking out bestial sounds of fury. The human speech was mixed in somewhere. “I wanted you to thrive. I wanted you to prosper. I tried so hard.”
― FC YEE, The Shadow of Kyoshi