The King Of Immortals [YOU GIVE ME TEMPTATION]

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eed for patience. To me, patience meant that I was either in the process of getting lectur

in my direction. "Remember that…

h

rking together, we'd have found a happy medium. My mother had her re

ife with my folklore studies, something I'd always hated b

t the rules, against the calling that had been given t

il

hen my mother's scream erupted through the house, followed

stopped. Liter

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and said she'd been having ch

as f

r heart, almost res

about to st

side. "Do you want them to

be anything else. To those individuals, I would always be the dir

their h

tter than m

research with the constant dread that, one day, my number would b

wed to survive only because it was necessary for th

a few brief minutes as

voice spoke into the darkn

k and shook her head. "Remember, you are nothing, you are ugly, you are hum

epeated the ma

imes during my upbringing, I'd locked myself in my room and just stared at myself in the mirror. I'd focused on each feature and wondered

ng about our bloodlines being wicked and selfish, and how

t if my number was cal

gs, and if my number was called, I f

d I thought we'd come a long wa

I was both nothing and everything, a

uniqueness because of

ted under my brea

ncrete as I made my way toward the light, the only l

oping that if I covered enough of myself, it would look humble, but

how could I have confidence when every day of my life my mom

I realized. The contact made me gasp. A slight

ice sounded like a soothing melody, causing me to almost sway on my

almost like an electric current was passing from his body into mine. I'd heard that it was nearly

e door, I looked arou

alls had sconces that I'm sure at one po

ould feel the power on the other sid

ght said. Finally, I glanced up

ve-year-old say to someone who had no ey

wasn't moving, yet he was

o comfort me. But his mouth still didn't move. Regardless of the knowledge i

d I was at the ceremony my life was going to

it meant the same thing. Espe

sweater, my p

e nothing. You are everything. You are simply… y

re I could stop it, "they have that

he lights

hooling in

at I saw. All the pictures, all

ed very much to fall