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The Prince's Poisoned Vow Excerpt
Wardens understood death better than anyone. He’d grown up in a tithe group that was
whittled down by alchemy. He went into the poison fields where threats from revenants, wild
beasts, and spores were an undying and never-ending threat. He walked in the footsteps of the
dead, and grief was a distant emotion Soren sometimes didn’t know how to carry.
Vanya carried his in his eyes, in the rigidness of his muscles, in the way his jaw stayed
tight when Soren brushed his fingers over it. Vanya kept his grief locked up like a tomb of old,
hidden from everyone. Soren only hoped Solaria wouldn’t lose another city how it’d lost Rixham
in the past.
Vanya’s gaze never left Soren’s face. “You have your duty.”
“Yes.” But he’d still come anyway, and that said something Soren didn’t want to dwell
on for long. It didn’t change where they stood with each other. It couldn’t.
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whittled down by alchemy. He went into the poison fields where threats from revenants, wild
beasts, and spores were an undying and never-ending threat. He walked in the footsteps of the
dead, and grief was a distant emotion Soren sometimes didn’t know how to carry.
Vanya carried his in his eyes, in the rigidness of his muscles, in the way his jaw stayed
tight when Soren brushed his fingers over it. Vanya kept his grief locked up like a tomb of old,
hidden from everyone. Soren only hoped Solaria wouldn’t lose another city how it’d lost Rixham
in the past.
Vanya’s gaze never left Soren’s face. “You have your duty.”
“Yes.” But he’d still come anyway, and that said something Soren didn’t want to dwell
on for long. It didn’t change where they stood with each other. It couldn’t.
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