regnavitque iter rex, yamiojo

Ciaran knew his words to be true but he could not help the spiteful answer coming from his mouth, "You tell me not to be crippled by guilt, and yet, you were the one with the scorching wall at his back."

Sebastian, unlike Ciaran had expected, only sighed, "We all have our demons to kill."

He thought about that answer, how other people would have engaged in a petty argument, and how he gave such a mild yet complex answer, like the sky. Blue to the eyes but with endless black stretching behind it. Was that a bad thing? He did not know.
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Ciaran Gwilym is a lost boy, literally and metaphorically. With all of his crimes hanging over his head, he is taken to a new world with a strange boy called Sebastian Perl.
Read about Ciaran and Sebastian go from begrudging allies to ardent partners, offering their own skin to save the other's back.