Gaby Vega

“But hours later, near the approach of dawn, Faye sat straight up in bed and sucked in a huge breath. The sound woke me up, and I instinctively grabbed the trashcan I'd set near the bed, preparing to catch a volley of barf. Instead, she grabbed my arm with surprising strength. With her eyes still closed, she looked right into my face, and said,
"Tell the man in the hall...he needs to leave."
Petrified, I slipped away from her grasp and peeked out the door into the long hallway. There was no one.”
― Felix Blackwell, Stolen Tongues

“She was the sun and he was the earth waking from a thaw.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“Unsullied!' Dany galloped before them, her silver-gold braid flying behind her, her bell chiming with every stride. 'Slay the Good Masters, slay the soldiers, slay every man who wears a tokar or holds a whip, but harm no child under twelve, and strike the chains off every slave you see.' She raised the harpy's fingers in the air ... and then she flung the scourge aside. 'Freedom!' she sang out. 'Dracarys! Dracarys!'
'Dracarys!' they shouted back, the sweetest word she's ever heard. 'Dracarys! Dracarys!' And all around them slavers ran and sobbed and begged and died, and the dusty air was filled with spears and fire.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“A candle unused is nothing but wax and wick," I said. "I would rather light the flame, knowing it will go out, than sit forever in darkness.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong