CW Wren

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Nietzsche

While it was growing increasingly clear that he was not there as her hero, it remained to be seen if he would be her villain instead

Emer suspected the number of people who had managed to scar him were few and the number of people who did so and still breathed were far fewer

Emer might have been impressed by how bored he could sound while threatening someone, if it were not directed towards her.

With sobering clarity, she realized that with every fear of hers having come to pass, there was nothing left to be afraid of. She had fallen to the bottom of the abyss, and here, not even the monsters could find her. It was there that she found the will to climb.

You are smaller than you seem,” he confessed.

It was a compliment—a testament to how she carried herself. Emer, however, mistook it for criticism

So, you were just trying to scare me?”

Calder tilted his head in that slow and feral manner. “I don’t try anything. If I want something, it happens.”

Though Calder did not make friendships as a rule, Banner had a habit of ignoring rules

“Your very presence is concerning. Your resistance is even more so. Your disregard for your own mortality
is utterly alarming. You will have to accept that you are entirely unexpected and wholly chaotic,” he listed and it was unclear if he was justifying her captivity to her or himself.

To women who look like flowers but draw blood like daggers,”