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aza is 54% done

“Her eyes are shockingly black—shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because she’s wearing smoky gray eyeshadow and dark eyeliner to accentuate them further. Makeup, while the world is ending. You don’t know whether to be awed or affronted by that.”

— 7 hours, 43 min ago

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aza is 67% done

“She cries because she has been inexpressibly lonely, and Schaffa… well. Schaffa loves her, in his tender and terrifying way. She does not pay attention to the bloody print his right hand leaves on her hip, or the press of his fingers—fingers strong enough to kill—against the base of her skull. Such things are irrelevant, in the grand scale.”

— 3 hours, 38 min ago

aza is 63% done

“That’s when Damaya finally realizes why people are looking: because they know about the strange quiet grit who goes wandering all the time. They’ve probably heard about Damaya via rumors or something, and they like that she’s finally brought someone else with her. They think she’s made a friend. Damaya would laugh, if the truth weren’t so unfunny.”

— 3 hours, 52 min ago

aza is 39% done

“What Damaya sees in them is something she does not understand at first, though she wants it with a desperation that surprises and unnerves her. As those first weeks pass into months and she grows familiar with the routine, she begins to understand what it is that the older orogenes display: control.”

— 20 hours, 54 min ago

aza is 10% done

“‘Never would’ve figured Jija for the type. He hit you?’
You shake your head. ‘Never.’ It might have been easier to bear, somehow, if Jija had been violent beforehand. Then you could have blamed yourself for poor judgment or complacency, and not just for the sin of reproducing.”

— Aug 06, 2026 07:13PM

aza is 8% done

“You’re a gift of the earth—but Father Earth hates us, never forget, and his gifts are neither free nor safe.”

— Aug 06, 2026 07:02PM

aza is 5% done

“Lerna closes his eyes, letting out a long breath. ‘That’s it, then.’
That’s not it. That should never have been enough to provoke a father to murder his own child. Nothing should have done that.”

— Aug 06, 2026 06:51PM

aza is starting

“‘It’s safe to love you. You won’t fail me. You won’t die. And I know the price up front.’
His companion does not reply. He wasn’t really expecting a response, though a part of him hoped. He has been so lonely.”

— Aug 06, 2026 06:31PM

aza is starting

“Delicately arching bridges woven of glass and audacity, and architectural structures called balconies that are so simple, yet so breathtakingly foolish, that no one has ever built them before in written history. (But much of history is unwritten. Remember this.)”

— Aug 06, 2026 06:26PM