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Of Shadows and Roses

"I am the darkness, you are the light—one cancels out the other. My darling, we are not fated to be together." Under the guise of peace and union, Rosette Aldrich is set to be married off by her royal parents to the Crown Prince of their enemy kingdom. She knows of her family's ulterior motives, that is why she allows her insistent parents to believe that she agrees to their wishes. When the day for her to meet her betrothed arrives, she sets out to humiliate her parents as revenge, planning to escape far away right after. However, things take an unpredictable turn when she gets lost in the forest while running from the guards, where she's almost turns into dinner for a beast. Just before she fades out from consciousness, she sees that the person who had saved her looks a lot like the man she was to marry. Only that... he isn't? Rasvien is the captain of the mercenaries who keep the beasts of the Evernight Forest in check. One night, while patrolling, he saves a girl from being killed by an orc. Somehow, in a series of unfortunate events, he ends up being responsible for Rosette. He thinks that she is rude and stuck-up, a rich girl who's just acting out while running from home. And that she is hiding something big behind those cunning beautiful blue eyes. But, that's not to say he isn't hiding secrets himself either.

JosieoftheEmbers · Fantasy
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123 Chs

Returning

A white blindness. Nothing in my eyes but light. This kind of an all-swallowing brilliance was supposed to sting, but there was a soft quality to it—warm and fond like a mother's embrace. The light enveloped everything there was to reach, taking up space and time as though it was claiming a momentary ownership. And then, like water being diluted, the strong light gradually ebbed. Like something that was alive, it gathered itself into a white streak and dove back into my hand in a speed as though it was being sucked into my palm. 

I breathed, feeling the flow of my magic along every inch of my body. Unlike last time, rather than exhaustion and fatigue, I felt revitalized. Renewed. As though using my power made me feel more alive than ever. 

I heard Ras release a breath, and it sounded like he had held it for long. "W-what… when did you learn to do that?"