Bellatorra
Beauty
She falters, trying to lie, but I catch that look in her eye, the one everyone else gets when they see me. The one that I see each time I look in the mirror. The one that says I’m just average.
He usually had answers for questions like these prepared, listed out in alphabetical order so he would never get tripped up. But just this once, he allowed those unholy words to escape his lips.
“I don’t know.”
Mintrite
Intellect
Istadem
Strength
With my leg like this I would dash right into my death, my beautiful body flailing through the air before splatting against the ground like a sunfruit. Not the best slogan for a tombstone.
“Damn you, Delvaxi!” I suck in a breath, cutting my words. “Sorry, didn’t mean that.” I sign a prayer to the earth as I curse myself in quiet. “Least Hennie can watch his damned mouth.”