550 pages complete - daily updates coming 7/18 The insinuation didn't make her mad. It didn't comfort her. But it did strike a chord. "My instincts are the only reason I'm alive. They're why those children in Sangravah survived." Azriel descended to the grounds of the river house. "Then perhaps you should listen to them." He set her down gently and the moment she opened her mouth to retort, he cut her off. "I told you I would wait. I meant it." His words rendered her dumbfounded. They were the words of a male devoted. A male who knew her far longer than Azriel had. But she didn't reject them, because her tears over his broken body had been the tears of a female who had lost a part of their soul. A female bound to him. "Shall we?" said Azriel, gesturing up at the river house. And Gwyn nodded, for she knew no words. *cover by lowkeystruggling*

"I see you." *** Born into a nightmare world where love and true happiness always seems to be out of reach, Azriel descends on his never ending path filled with beautiful monsters and unfading scars-forever tortured by the flames that wither away at his soul and consume his entire being. With no one but his chosen family to rely on, the Shadowsinger finds that he is once again left out of the loop when his brothers find their fated loves, leaving him to embark on their journeys to true happiness. But as hope seems dim he comes across a light, withering and small but alive with life sparking in the beauty of it's white flame. And he wants nothing more to keep it to himself as a shared secret between him and his shadows.