Status Updates From The River She Became

“Only because I was close to them did I see the way Kiyan’s eyes flickered down to the King’s golden crown fused to his chest, the Viceroy’s skin like drippings of wax around a brass candelabra set in his sternum.”

I just wanna know if this gets caught in his clothes

“Yes, we had only shared a bed, but waking up entangled with him felt like it had woken my body up too.

And now it was very, very aware of him—and in more than just the physical sense.

Near him, I felt as though I wasn’t alone anymore, as though I had someone who understood the act of violence that was growing up being told you couldn’t be who you were meant to be...”

One bed trope doing heavy lifting here

“After Reza had taken all my father’s power for his own, he’d melted King Rusul’s crown into his chest, the arches of gold like the mast of a shipwreck rising above the water in his skin....”

Brother ewww

“This girl was no human.

As far as I knew, humans didn’t have magic of any sort. Some had even worshipped peris, building temples in our honor, awed by the power we possessed....”

She's the chosen one!!

“A human boy my age was bound by a bargain to a churail, and the witch kept him on a leash made of threads of wind she’d conjured. His eyes had been vacant and unseeing as he did her bidding.”

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“There were no boats on the River—you could travel down it, but if you crossed the magical line in the middle it would slice your vessel in two like a hot knife through butter. Remains would wash along the shores; guts and blood and innards—a warning to all those who tried to cross the barrier.”

Wait what