Mageheart

I shrugged. "I don't have a problem with it," I said. Nathaniel turned away, either not wanting to see the first aid or the old scars, but I turned my ...

"Heliodor Everett, no ," Jo said, instinctively, when he said he needed to return to captivity. Jo wanted to be careful when talking to him. She didn't want to make ...

Skull eyed the tattoos. "I want to see them," he said, not realizing what Kaz had about needing to take off his shirt to see them. "How much did they ...

"No," Skull said, but the question suddenly made him consider getting some. He had brought it up to his roommates, the other day, but Asmira had shut down his idea ...

"That's true," Skull agreed. He didn't know what he had expected Kaz to look like, but he could see how Kaz had only just started working here—he was on the ...

Skull shrugged. "I don't have a lot of options," he said. "I wanted to stay in the area—I have a good apartment." And good roommates, too, even though Skull wouldn't ...

Skull did the mental math, which was hard, considering that his math skills were about as good as his reading ones. "A few weeks," he said. "Right after my stint ...

"Skull," Skull replied. He waited for the inevitable question that would follow—one that he usually took pride in answering, because he loved seeing the expressions on people's faces when he ...

Skull gave a deadpan stare at the closed stall door. "What else would I be?" he asked.

Skull let out another groan, followed by another swear, and then questioned once again if it would hurt too badly if he slammed his head on the door of the ...

Skull groaned. "There's a sign ," he said, "for a reason ." And it was the stall he had just cleaned, too. Skull muttered a swear underneath his breath—one of ...

"That's me," I said, "in the flesh. Well, Natty boy's flesh." "It's Nathaniel," Nathaniel said, giving that smile he did when he was trying to be all business. I rolled ...

Jo shook her head. "There's no one here who can hurt you," they said, and then they paused when they remembered they had just escaped from a torturer with him. ...

Skull hated cleaning the bathrooms. When he had complained about it several times to his roommates, they had told him it was his fault. He was the one who had ...

"No," Jo said quickly, already sensing the beginnings of his spiral. "Not you . Maybe how you were taught? I don't think taught's the right word, though." She took her ...