Status Updates From Grim and Oro (Lightlark)

“Isla Crown,” I say. “Will you be my wife?”
Tears fall down her cheeks, and then she’s smiling. Her happiness wraps around us in bright, searing red. “Yes,” she says. “Not for one life, but for every life, I will be your wife.”

HES BOWING FOR HER HES ON HIS KNEES 8 CANT OHMYGFVEHIN

“That isn’t strong enough a word.” I frown. “No, heart, I don’t love you. I live for you. I destroy for you. I die for you. My every thought and emotion revolve around you. You are my sun, my moon, my gravity, my eternity.”

“I love you,” she whispers in my ear, and I stop breathing.

AAAHH IM CRY8NGR

“I don’t ever want to live a single day without you,” I say. “It wouldn’t even be living.”

MY BABIES MY HEART

My shadows puddle across the room, and for the first time in my long life I know bliss. True, endless bliss.

this never doesn’t make me tear up. when his shadows puddle. it breaks my heart so bad

“Other emotions never affected my own . . . until you.”

SKREEEEEEEEEE

I wonder if she knows I’ve never been jealous in my life until now. No one has ever had anything I’ve wanted until now.
I’ve never wanted anything, I realize. Not really.
Not until her.

SKREEEEEEE

“Isla.” My voice is lethally calm as I say, “Which one did this to you?”

still so perfect 🩵🩵

Two. I imagine something very different from the thin, almost imperceptible line across her throat. I imagine a necklace.

SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I follow her— To dark volcanic sand. To the same place I first portaled. Suddenly, I’m thrust back centuries. I’m a child, clutching sand. Panic ripples around me— It isn’t my own. It’s hers now too. What are the chances of her portaling here, of all places? As if she could know? As if . . . we are even more similar than I thought. She can’t know. She can’t know what she’s doing to me.

END. GAME.

My blood is roaring, pulled toward hers, something unexplainable and unmatched thrumming between us. I didn’t know it was possible for two people to have a gravity between them until I met her. Now all my thoughts and dreams revolve around her, like I am an admiring moon, rotating around the planet that is her. This will ruin me. She will ruin me. And I might just enjoy it.

BABIES