09/03/2026 00:55

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I've changed my mind, I said. The grave threw him upward like a flower springing free of the earth, but the push of it forced me to pull him upward, to find my feet with Requiem steadying me. Micah knows that, Nathaniel knows that, the only person who doesn't know that seems to be you. I let myself do what I'd wanted to do since he touched my face.

But we are allowed to use any means necessary to do our jobs. I stood there, tugging my leather jacket around me. He wasn't as long as Richard, but he was far enough down, that it wasn't a matter of swallowing. Denied him release for months.