I never once broke.
I never once told them where the women and children were, or that others helped me plan their escape.
Not even as they pinned two more ash arrows through my wings--and then my legs--and then my hands.
The pain became so unbearable I just did not even feel it anymore.
I do not know if I have been hanging here for days, for months, or years. It felt like a millennia. The hallucinations from the poison did not help--my worst nightmares coming alive in my head over and over again. I was not even sure if I was still breathing.
Maybe I was dead.
Maybe this was hell.
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A Court of Song and Shadow
FanfictionDuring the first war against Hybern 500 years in the past, the daughter of the night court journeys through the difficult life of being a female warrior in a male-dominated Prythian. She must be willing to make decisions that could cost her everythi...
