![]() ![]() Leo’s gaze caught his in the mirror, his hands frozen with scissors still in grasp. It meant I was wasted by the time he got home.” ![]() I’d open my first bottle around three in the afternoon. “When I was fifteen, I started getting drunk early. And Dara was tired of staying silent.ĭara wet his lips. He lifted his hand and slid chilly fingers into Dara’s shorn-short hair. The stupidest too.” That earned a broken sort of laugh from Noam. “You-Noam, even if you didn’t have magic, you wouldn’t be powerless. “You aren’t powerless.” Dara’s voice wavered. The moment that followed was heavy and silent, thick enough between them Dara could’ve twisted it in his grasp like fabric. maybe I’m afraid of being powerless again.” He rubbed his thumb against the backs of Noam’s knuckles, and Noam said: “I can do something, now. ![]() Not until I got magic.” Noam’s hand slackened against Dara’s, but Dara didn’t try to pull away again. And there was never anything I could do about it. Maybe it’s because I’ve been so-my whole life, people do things to, they. what you said, in the bar the other night. ![]()
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