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I WILL NOT LOSE CONTROL OF THIS VESSEL AGAIN!

I’d smile if I had a face Yes That’s it You will You will lose and I in

So its circumstances, and whatever it is threatens its ability to holdits hold? I expand et slammed by a wave of bone-deep exhaustion It’s the first sensation I’ve felt since the Book turned! It needs to sleep With its consciousness tethered to my physicality, it will eventually pass out It has to It can’t run my body around forever, or it would die Bodies pass out when overexerted What will happen to it then? What will happen to ilant one now I suffer no weariness, no need for slulass in which everything is visible and can be studied

It speaks again, three words weakly

Did So outith allsucked out of , growing

For a long, terribletorn in half, as if so and flailing, trying to break free The tension becomes unbearable

Abruptly, pain slaered by it

I openthe pain--

Holy shit

I

Open

My eyes

AOIBHEAL, QUEEN OF THE FAE

"You asinine fool, letof the candlelit, flower-strewn boudoir in which she was trapped Sparkling dia fireflies, scattered around her fist and spiraled away through the air

Her words, like all the others she’d spoken, threatened and cajoled, fell on deaf ears--if the uncaring Unseelie King was even listening If he hadn’t wandered off, distracted by some a the ceiling that she re was eavesdropping, her lie had been unconvincing