A vow in Ashes

so sharp I could carve my

in the corner. A chandelier big enough to crush me if it falls.

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about the way he says it, lik

s slide into the pockets of his suit, too calm,

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rs into my bone

eard that name before. In whispers. In

the. "This is a mistak

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s quiet, dangerous. "Y

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on't remember, or the fact that somehow, de