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Welp I’m a coward

With Rys, Ji for ing slightly open, but I sure as hell can’t get my mouth to work

I can’t believe this I ain And while I haven’t quite accepted that me and Rys… aren’t me and Rys anymore, my relationship with my human boyfriend here I had to leave it when I escaped Siúcra: in the Iron, the huain

But… Ji in the , callused hands holding tightly tomind

Hey Are you okay?

No I’ not okay that, before I can really think about what I’ht’ve been, “I… I gotta go,” duck out from under his hold, and sprint toward the spiral stairs branching off of the nearest hall

I take those shits two at a tiainst each sturdy crystal step I’ one of the Faerie outfits that Rys had made for me by an imp tailor that traveled all the way to his house to fit me Since he’s a Seelie, all of my clothes reflect his type of fae: the top and bottom are loose, flowy, olden thread It’s nothing like the jeans and tank I spent the last two et used to how different rateful for them now They make it easy to bolt up the stairs

On the second floor, there are two doors The one on the left leads to Rys’s sthe door closed behind me

My heart is lodged in my throat I can’t quite catch my breath, and I’d like to pretend that’s because I went from zero to sixty in like three seconds, but I think it hasface to face with Jim

Jah school sweetheart, my first—and only, before I fell for Rys—lover, and the man I’ve called my boyfriend for the last ten years, ever since ere sixteen I know all of his secrets, he knows most of mine, and, before I accidentally found ht I’d spend the rest of my life with… even if our relationship has been on life support for longer than I want to think about

These last few years, though we still shared a bed in our apart else I busied myself with my art while Jiarage where he worked as a ether because, well, why not? It was coht?

At least, that’s what I toldhe’d care for once, hoping I’d get so weeks before he even noticed When he did? He asked me why I ruinedcrazy things to my hair since we first met

It was the catalyst to the fight that led to my fateful walk in our local park the day I stumbled upon the fairy circle Disappointed with Ji more from him—I took a walk to cool off and, whether it was fate or I was just being an idiot, I walked through the ring of mushrooms and crossed the veil into Faerie