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i’m not ready to say goodbye to the zumra 😭

what altair said to zafira: let me be your horseman
what altair meant: let me be your everything

me: a mess 😭💜

“I understand in some way,” she corrected. “To have words collect on your tongue but feel as if they aren’t worth voicing. To feel as if no one wants to listen.”

The world could be remade but abuse could never be undone.

“Your turn. What color do you like most?”
“You,” he said, so softly it was only a sound. The intensity of his gaze stole the air from her lungs.
She shook her head. “That—”
“Every color that makes you.”

what could zafira say? that he was a friend she has made? a boy she has kissed? a prince she must bow to?

“men are like fish; shiny and of little brain”

kifah and zafira is the duo i never knew i needed