I grab Jesper's arm, my nails digging into his skin. I should be worried that I'm hurting him, but all rationality had left me when... when...
But now he's dead. The once bright and clever eyes — familiar eyes I didn't even know I knew so well until today — left glassy and faded. No, not faded exactly. The fear is still in them, his broken jaw elongated into a never-ending scream.
That sickening crack of his neck still rings in my ears. It's left a bulge of bone sticking out of the soft skin of his neck. One of thirty-three vertebrae snapped to result into this.
Blood — hot, dark, and iron — spills onto the cement floor. Erratically, I imagine it flooding the room, taking me down with it.
Oh Saints, I just killed a man.
Kuwei is so going to kill me.
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IGNORANTIA (Dark Academia!Wesper AU)
FanfictionWhat if Bo Yul-Bayur was never captured by the Fjerdans? What if Jan Van Eck never had to hire Kaz and his ragtag team? What if Matthias never got to leave Hellgate? Well, it means a full-ride scholarship to the University of Ketterdam for Wylan, ap...
