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Slowly, I close my fingers around his wrist. He still bleeds, but I don’t mind. It’s fitting. “Will you oath yourself to the Scarlet Guard?” I expect him to smile. Instead his face turns to stone. “On one condition.” My eyebrows raise so high they might disappear into my hairline. “The Guard does not bargain.” “This isn’t a request to the Guard, but to you,” he replies.
— Jul 06, 2026 04:20PM
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For once, his smile is real. No jokes, no mask. “Are you with us, Shade Barrow?” “I’m with you, Diana.” “Then we will rise.” His voice joins mine. “Red as the dawn.”
— Jul 06, 2026 04:22PM
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Shade looks on, expectant. I realize he’s holding my hand, not minding the blood coagulating beneath my fingers. “My name is Diana.”
— Jul 06, 2026 04:22PM
Athena
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When the Colonel was called Papa, and the Scarlet Guard was the pipe dream of hunters and farmers and empty soldiers. My name is my mother, my sister Madeline, and their graves dug in the frozen ground of a village no one lives in anymore
SHADE gave Diana a reason to like her name again 😭
— Jul 06, 2026 04:21PM
SHADE gave Diana a reason to like her name again 😭
Athena
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My name. The others don’t mind using their own, but for me, there is no such thing. My name holds no importance. Only rank and designation truly matter. What my mother called me is of no consequence to anyone, least of all me. It is a burden more than anything, a stinging reminder of her voice and the life we lived in early days.
— Jul 06, 2026 04:21PM
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For a man who can move faster than the blink of an eye, somehow he manages to take the world’s slowest step forward. We stand eye to eye, blue meeting gold. Curiosity gets the better of me. “And that is?” “What’s your name?”
— Jul 06, 2026 04:20PM
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—You’re a special kind of stupid, kid. —RAM—
So there’s still affection between Farely and her father
— Jul 06, 2026 04:19PM
So there’s still affection between Farely and her father
Athena
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I am twenty-two years old, a captain of the Scarlet Guard, and no one, not even the Colonel, can tell me I am wrong now.
Shade is 19
— Jul 06, 2026 04:18PM
Shade is 19
Athena
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On another day, my team would spend hours tracking them all to their homes, only to watch them sleep off the long journey. Not so now. Because it’s First Friday. Today is the Feat of July.
This is where Red Queen begins
— Jul 06, 2026 04:06PM
This is where Red Queen begins
Athena
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One of three top-of-the-line, techie-made, long-range secure radios, all swiped from the Corvium stores by Barrow’s light fingers
So stealing runs in the family Shade and Mare steal
— Jul 06, 2026 04:05PM
So stealing runs in the family Shade and Mare steal
