❝ "Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air." ❞ Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath FALSE GOD
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RADHA SURESH ❝ heart made of glass, my mind of stone ❞
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KEITH KOGANE ❝ if a god is a dog and man is a fraud then i'm a lost cause ❞
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"You couldn't know what it means to bleed," She whispered, all electricity and fire and damnation.
"I do," He responded, all fumes and rubble and desire, "and I just don't know what it means to heal."
A cat has nine lives, and Radha Suresh has ten. And dead men have regrets – so does Radha – but she has something that walking corpses usually don't: a single-minded determination to beat the odds. Whatever the odds are – her forgotten home, her missing sister, or a lost princess's request for her to join a fight that isn't hers – Radha will be the last girl standing. She may not be the best soldier, but she was made for war.
(She is not meant for gentleness.)
Wolves move in packs, but Keith Kogane works alone – that is, until he suddenly doesn't. Cemeteries have lots of ghosts, but Keith has more and his haunting is less of bad memories than burdens he's grown to shoulder. Hardened by grief and years spent alone, Allura's wild card is less of a woman than a walking hurricane. (Keith knows fear, but Radha inspires something else – something gentler, something newer, something stranger – so, no, he's not afraid.) It doesn't matter that Radha is just as hardened but equally as gentle with everyone.
(He is not meant for mercy.)
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❝HARD TO SEE WHEN YOUR EYES ARE CLOSED, HARD TO LOVE WHEN YOU'RE HEART IS BROKEN, LIVE MY LIFE OUT IN THE COLD, DAYS ARE GONE AND NOW I'M FROZEN❞
-gossip, sleeping with sirens
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author's note:
been meaning to do this for a while actually. hoping my rewrite will be better and more promising. rereading it and seeing all this foolishness is too embarrassing, but i'm here to give you a better story so stick around. i promise i'm writing and doing my best.
