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Chapter 1

Randal

In a fraction of a second, the ever-present rooted rage inside of

The source of this revolutionary change?

A girl In a green dress

Sounds sih But, Christ, if the waysimple about what happened to me the moment I locked my eyes on her

She was so fucking far away She should have faded into the rest of the colorless scenery down on the ground Instead, she called to me like a siren of the sea

I’d seen thousands of girls and wo themselves to me in ways the devil would only understand Yet I was unaffected by any of them ever

Until right now What was different about her?

Everything Everything was different about her

Her dark hair with the sheen of the finest silk was tied back in a ponytail, catching ht, shining with a light of its own

Even looking down on her froe point in the ruined tower, I was lost in her dark eyes In those first seconds that I castwho I was What I was

My surroundings disappeared Silk sheets, dark wood, blazing fire and stones that had stood for six centuries faded to nothing in coift fro day to e, but the sound was consuh my ears

Right then, I was just a irl ripe on the threshold of wo inside ofrusted in place struggling to turn again Her dress was barely able to contain breasts that spilled froreen fabric Her dress was irl, but it now barely contained a woman