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Through Crimson Eyes Book

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Through Crimson Eyes

Bealyn_Rix

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She was always drawn to storms the same way lightning was drawn to the sky. Even at a young age, Azura sought comfort beneath the thunderclouds that often came to the Sky'Lands during their journey across the Crystallin Sea, the only home she's ever known but has never been allowed to leave. At least from her standpoint. If it wasn't for having an unyielding and overly protective family on top of a vow made long ago, Azure was sure of herself that she would leave. But change is often a terrifying thing to face alone, especially coming from the eyes of a gifted girl who's been isolated all her life. From the moment he was born, Damien's life had never been his own. Orphaned amidst the serf class and deemed property of the Crown, it seemed his future had been set in stone. To work laboriously with his head held low and his tongue discreet until the day death should come for him. A death he so gravely wishes would hurry up. Scares cover his body, some done to him by the hands of the upper class, others he did himself, for there is no such thing as a free slave in the Kingdom of Dunstan as long as the Royals live. On the night following the Summer Solstice, however, a storm would seal their fate only to bind them to a kindred need. One born from desperation and estrangement. Call it destiny, or daresay a bloody curse. Now chained by the threads of fate, a young healer and a slave boy find themselves captured on the mainland by the King of the Dark Coniferous himself, only to be thrown into a sacrificial ritual meant to bring something unspeakable back. Something frightening enough to unnerve even the High Lords of the seven courts. There's a sense of wrongness from within Stone Henge, where the late Royal Families of Venijnig lay in their tombs. A wicked presence awaiting to be called home. Those who remember him never speak the name aloud but know of him as the uncrowned prince, a butcherer of women and abomination amongst the Royal bloodlines, yet he was a prince once. The youngest son of the Crimson Crowned King Theseus, but a bastard born to a pleasureserf who tainted the young prince's blood, turning it a glistening black silver. They say his gluttonous appetite for power is what killed the late King along with his heirs before the prince himself was entombed and warded deep beneath the mire surrounding Stone Henge. For the slave boy, it wasn't just a myth that led him to leap into the sea, but a terror that came to him in his dreams. One that he could not escape from. And as for the young healer, she has no idea how deep such a nightmare can go. ____________________________________ Update: 5/31/2023 It's hot and I'm writing this in eighty-degree weather. My brain may be melting and I may be sleep deprived, but gosh darn it I want to write! So here's to attempt number 'who knows at this point, but lets keep going anyway'!

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