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🎶here i am, once again🎶

These climactic moments are always times so weirdly late in the book

“Hmmph,” Xyan said, his massive chest heaving with the rumbling sound. “Then at least let me shift you so that you are between the tent and me.”

SWOOOOON

“Yes. Though I do not know how I will get any rest without you. Sometimes I cannot even breathe...” He took a sharp breath, then shook his head slowly while rubbing at his forehead. “I don’t know how you drink this alcohol regularly. It makes all my feelings come out of my mouth.”

“Right now I do not feel in control of myself.” He paused, a muscle in his cheek twitching, before he said, “And around you, I need all of my control.”

I wondered ceaselessly where she was and what she was doing. I had hoped to see her at the evening fire, but I’d had to stay working later than usual to make up for some of the time I’d lost in the hot spring with her. I imagined she, too, had work to do. Of course she did – a woman as competent and clever as Zerena would not wait around all day for a mere warrior such as myself to come and find her.