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'He does not deserve you, Liska Radost.?
Nor I him, she replies. 'But nothing is ever equal with humans, really - we give and we take, the scales ever tipping. That's just the way of it. I am what he has, and he is what I have - there's no point keeping score.'

They are so pretty

AHHHHH!!! wdym farewell for a while they were about to kiss i am screaming WTHHHH

“Somehow, his teasing manages to comfort her. She feels known for the slightest of moments, shorter than the fall of a raindrop or the chirp of a songbird. It's unsettling to realize that he might understand her better than anyone has before. More than Mama, more than Tata, more even than Marysienka.”

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women are inherently more powerful in magic.
Men could have never stayed in power if they allowed us to thrive. So they spread rumours and refused to take us on as apprentices. I ought to have taken Orlica's crown for myself and put an end to all their idiocy. Probably could have prevented a few wars while I was at it.'

PERIOD!

Remember what you did last time? her mind whispers. If you free it, you will truly become a monster.
'Fine,' Liska hisses, blood leaking down her arm. "Then let me be a monster.'

Mah girllllllll

She reaches out and puts her hand over his.
He twitches, as if her touch is lightning, as if he expects to burst aflame. When she looks up, his eyes are wide and bewildered.
'You've endured so much for us, Liska whispers.
'It's my duty,' he says.
"Thank you.' She holds his hand until his shoulders loosen, until he knows she means it.
The way he looks at her, it is as if she has spoken absolution to a man condemned.

'What are you doing?'
Making sure my not-so-clever fox is as fine as she says she is. He draws his fingers away but continues to survey her, study her, a jeweller trying to decide the value of a rare diamond.

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Let’s goooo we are learning magic 🥳

'A garden... He rubs his temples. 'Of course. What did I expect? Something befitting an all-powerful demon?
No, of course not. I have razed battlefields and summoned storms and created wonders from magic alone, but she wants me to grow cabbages.'

“What did any of this accomplish? All you did was bleed everywhere, you useless demon?
You're the one who can't keep her nose out of a demon's business You useless girl.' 'If I had kept my nose out of your business, you would have bled out on the floor!' He grimaces. 'I preferred you when you were quiet."
'And I preferred you when you were a deer.'

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