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"𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒, 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘. 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔. 𝐴𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑒𝑡."
—𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜
𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭: 𝟐𝟓𝟒𝟒

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"𝐈'𝐌 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐀𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆, you take one of these," Devon picked up the dinner roll from his plate, showing it to everyone, "and you shove it down someone's throat, I don't think they would survive."

"No one said you were wrong the first time." Wesley rolled his eyes from beside him as he took a bite of his pasta.

"Yeah, sure," Devon said as he looked down to the bread with a frown, "but no one said I was right."

"Because it was a stupid thing to say in the first place," Cedric pointed out with raised eyebrows.

"It's not stupid," Devon insisted with a pout, "it's useful!"

Liliana tilted her head, a strand of dark hair falling in front of her face. "A murder tactic is useful?"

"You never know when you might need it." 

"You could just use magic if you wanted to kill somebody," Riley pointed out before taking a sip of the water in his golden goblet. "There's a spell for that."

Liliana looked around the group hesitantly, her eyebrows now furrowed with concern. "But we don't want to kill anybody . . . right?"

Devon shrugged, tilting his chin upwards. "There are a few people I could think of."

Riley's forehead slowly became creased. "We're not one of them, are we?"

Devon didn't respond, though the devilish smile that grew on his lips told them enough. 

Wesley's eyes narrowed. "Someone take that dinner roll away from him."

Devon wrapped both hands around the dinner roll protectively, ineffectively squishing it so that it became completely flat, crumbs falling onto his plate.

"Never mind, I forgot that Devon's a complete moron." Wesley threw the other boy a teasing grin before shoving another bite of pasta into his mouth. "He would never be smart enough to even kill a cockroach, much less a person."

"Hey!" Devon exclaimed, now tearing off a small piece of the flattened bread and shoving it into his mouth.

"He's not wrong," Cedric chuckled after swallowing his bite of salad. "You tripped and fell when we were walking in the Courtyard the other day. For no reason."

"I told you guys, there was a rock!" Devon exclaimed indignantly. "You guys are blind, that's all." 

"Just like all the girls you've dated," Wesley sniggered, nudging Devon with his elbow.

"Speaking of dating . . ." Devon's look of annoyance turned into a malicious smirk as he looked towards Cedric and Liliana. "How are you two lovebirds?"

Riley was overcome by sudden excitement as he whipped towards them and grinned. "Are you guys married yet?"

Cedric rolled his eyes. "We've gone on one date."