Mageheart

"I don't," Nathaniel said, carefully. There was still some of that wariness there, but I could see a glimpse of the Nathaniel that his enemies knew. The one that got ...

Jo stopped walking, even though they had only just started up again. She held Heliodor Everett closely and carefully, hoping that the feeling of her weird carry embrace would be ...

Nathaniel dropped my body. The air temperature plummeted, and up to Nathaniel's wrists became shadows. I was losing control. Hev had a strong will, one that I wouldn't have expected ...

Jo shook their head. "I'm not," she insisted. "You're worth more than all of those lords and your dad combined." They didn't want to think of the implications of that ...

Nathaniel took a step back. He was still holding my body, but I could see he was starting to lose a grip on it. The tips of his fingers were ...

It was stupid of Jo to suddenly shift back to herself, especially when she already holding him in a good position, but Hench wasn't all that good for hugging. So ...

Nathaniel gave me—the actual me, not my body—a look that bordered on reprimanding and panicked. I glared back. It wasn't like it was my fault that he picked up on ...

Nathaniel nodded. We were standing by Hev when it happened—I went to take a step forward while Nathaniel still had his gaze on Estella Fay. We stumbled, a little, at ...

If Jo wasn't in the middle of carrying Heliodor Everett, they would have given him a hug. Instead, they settled for giving him a quick, reassuring squeeze instead—completely ignorant of ...

We entered the doctor's office. I wasn't used to formal offices like this one before. Usually, when we got hurt, Asmira played medic. Before then, the only doctor I had ...

When Heliodor Everett said that the only thing he was good for was being left behind, Jo's heart broke. When he said that he was going to die here, it ...

Before Nathaniel could come to any decision on that, I shrugged. I didn't really care either way. It wasn't like I'd be slipping back off into my body right away, ...

Jo could have pointed out that she wasn't bleeding as badly as Heliodor Everett was, and that the person who had knocked out the torturer hadn't been bleeding that badly, ...

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