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"For what? And it better not be because I didn’t call you a woman’s name We literally just went over that Woh It’s been a really long ti more on my side, then debated what to do with ht, it would be awfully close to his nether region He was a guy, so he’d probably shift when I wasn’t paying attention just so I’d findhis junk But if I shifted my arm anywhere else, I’d have to rest it on hihtly droppedat ain,the bed plead surrender "You can put your hand wherever you want, Turdswallop"

I hesitated in letting ain "You can’t call a person turdswallop That’s a word, not a na it because my mother doesn’t knohat itup words, because turdswallop is not a word"

"Not even in England?"

Laughter bubbled out of hi shut "No," he wheezed "Not even in England"

"I think you’re wrong I’ve definitely heard it before What is so freaking funny?"

"How can you say all of this with such a serious face?" He started laughing again

"See? This is why I hunch all the time I’m the butt of everyone’s jokes but usually have no idea why This is nor an eye "This is not normal life This is a blessed life" He calhed very much since before my brother died And yes, he was my size I’m six-two and he was six-three Neither of us were this h We worked out, but it was different…these last few years on the run have ically powerful I’ve worked at it every day The only way to stay alive is to be at the top of the food chain, no matter how many of them come for you"

"Why since before your brother died? Were you and he fighting?"

Heunder ers, and I threaded uild, and like I told you and your s out That’s why he joined thees’ Guild into an organization our parents would have been proud of I told hiet himself killed, and that it couldn’t be done But he didn’t listen And then it ca That made it so much worse, because he would’ve believed ic"

"Why didn’t you lie and say that it was your premonition?"

"I don’t have them about other people I only have theht back to earlier that evening "So the guild wouldn’t really go after ainst uess I should’ve said that I only have them about myself usually Your fate is tied withto do with you Nor aic I’ical world But for soer sensors now encompass you I don’t know er if I’er too I’m not sure yet"

Silence descended between us, and the throb of the round My eyelids drooped and , unsettled sort of way, but the feeling didn’t require action Despite lying on a near-stranger and admitted criminal as about to take er, I was coe I knoho has pure black survivalthe world what I truly ah made my eyelashes flutter He squeezed azes connected in the diht His lips twitched, his attempt at a smile he didn’t feel, before he rubbed my arm with the hand draped around"I know it’s not true"

But I could hear in his voice that he wasn’t being honest He did think it was true He thought he was evil

My heart ached for hi Especially after losing everyone close to you, and being forced to leave your home and way of life He was an outcast,to his naic That he would think he didn’t have honor, that he was doomed to darkness, was more than I could bear