Anyone who'd ever kept a secret could tell you, the bigger the secret, the more draining it was to carry around with you. Every second, of every minute, of every day, lying to the people around you. Waiting for the inevitable moment that the truth would come out and you would have to deal with the fallout. It was exhausting. Violet Cross
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  1. If these were Plumber's people, that would mean he knew we were coming. That we'd lost our element of surprise and we were walking into a trap. Which, you know, was obviously at the top of my to-do list today.
  2. The Divines may have taken our homes, our friends, our family, but what we had now we would fight to keep hold of. And if the Divines did decide to try and take it, they'd have a hell of a fight on their hands.
  3. Just then they were both vulnerable, and the only thing standing between them and our enemies, was me. It seemed nobody wanted to take those odds because no one approached. I was mildly flattered.
  4. Our enemies had a tendency to take one look at Charlotte, with her short, slim figure and her pretty, delicate Asian features, and assume she was weak. A low level threat. Ten seconds later, the look of surprise on his face as he lay on...
  5. She hadn't been scared for herself, she'd been frightened for me. Good. Her A-class horror movie scream earlier had nearly put me in an early grave. When this was over, I could call us even.
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