Mageheart

Jo's face fell. "That's so wrong ," they said. "You shouldn't have to-You shouldn't have to put all your emotions away like that." It was a survival mechanism. Jo got ...

"His head," Nathaniel said. He gestured at the blood smeared across my forehead. "I got stabbed in the side, too," I added, my look of disgust gone now that Saturn ...

Jo gave a tiny nod at that. She didn't know enough about grief to have strong feelings on what was the best way to deal with it. They had lost ...

I opened my mouth to protest, but the words died on my lips as soon as Saturn started smothering Hev. My face contorted into a look of disgust. Even though ...

Jo shook her head. "It wasn't," she said, "but I...uh..." They felt awkward at the thought of admitting what they had actually thought, so they didn't. "It doesn't matter," Jo ...

Hev reached Nathaniel. He touched his shoulder, and then I finally got a rush of control. Not from Hev, but from Nathaniel—who I was thankfully back to possessing. I took ...

Jo suddenly remembered reading stories, as a kid, of women who were forced to have kids when their bodies were too weak to actually have them. They didn't want to ...

Was he ignoring me? After Lucy ignoring me when she was mad at me or just was doing her best to pretend I wasn't talking, I should have been used ...

Jo's heart broke again. "I'm sorry," Jo said, quietly. She wasn't sure if the words meant anything to him. "I...I couldn't imagine losing someone like that..."

Jo was quiet when she spoke again. "...Oh," she managed to get out. The way he said my Hannah Grace made it sound romantic. She wasn't sure she could ever ...

I hadn't ever been thrown from control like that before. I hadn't ever had someone so strongly fight against my control—so strongly assert their will. I didn't know how to ...

She shook her head. "No," she said, "but we don't need to leave anyone behind-" They paused, a thought suddenly hitting them. They weren't sure why they hadn't considered it ...

"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 ...