we were like stars at the dawning of the world

by JustAnotherDemigod xx

in which annabeth loves a doomed boy or: the song of achilles except they don't share clothes.

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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto""Shh, I know, I know."/spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"She smoothed back his hair from his face and ignored the blood. His face was scratched, dirty, bloody. /spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; overflow: visible; position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"
p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"He had never looked more beautiful./spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; overflow: visible; position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"
p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto""Stay with me?"/spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; overflow: visible; position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"
p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"As if he even had to ask. /spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; overflow: visible; position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"
p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"She nodded and he looked content for just a moment. They stayed like that for a while, a /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"boy and a girl/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" and the deafening silence./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto""Do you-do you remember when that pizza delivery guy came to camp?"/spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto""Yeah, he was /spanspan class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"so lost," /spanspan class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"She forced a laugh./spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"He nodded his head. Told more stories. This and this and this. His eyes were dimming, but he was still beautiful. The twinkle faded just a bit, but he was still there./spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"He was still there./spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"He fell silent after a while, looking at her. "/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"I'm/span span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"really sorry/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"."/span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"Desperation. Shaking. Dim eyes that always used to shine. Ashen skin that used to be so tan./spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"A broken girl, fixed by the boy she now held in her arms, broken once again./spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"He had picked up all the pieces of her and pieced them back together, ignoring /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"tha/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"t the shards teared skin and flesh, and /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"maybe that/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" was what killed him./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"It was her fault /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2,); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"really,/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" she knew that he was doomed from the start. But she guessed that was what made him so beautiful in the first place. A boy, fresh-faced and young, a prophecy looming over his head. Destined to die, but how can someone so full of life be rid of it?/span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"Her fault – she had indulged herself. Let her believe that there was another way. That they could run from Fate, twist the prophecy. That they could deny Destiny herself. It was stupid, really, but in his arms, she felt like they could do it. They were half-divine, something of legends, and they could do it, they could deny Fate, they could. /spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"He was gone, in her arms, and she looked at his broken body and found it hard to believe that he was dead, because this was a boy who could face off against the gods themselves and win, this was a boy who could deny Fate and Destiny and the prophecy, this was a boy who was doomed from the start but still believed in the world no matter how hard it hurt him, this was a boy that looked at her and saw her break and instead of leaving like everyone else did, he dropped to the floor, picked up the shards and pieced them back together than cradled her so gently with his bloody hands. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"It's/span span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"alright/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;", she wanted to say, because her hands were /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"bloody too/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;", and when they joined them together, it was beautiful. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"This was a cruel boy, watching her break once again, but she knew that he never wanted to be cruel, never wanted to break her heart./spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"And they all sat there, silence, /spanspan class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; background-position: 0px 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-image: var(-urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2,); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"god/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;", and mortal, and broken and the boy who was both. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"The Fates took his body away./spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"She cried./spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"Because this was a boy who was meant to live forever, and yet./spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"The scars on her wrist /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"weren't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" just from monsters./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-GB"span class="TextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"The /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"wheel/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" of time turned./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW48121011 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:279}" /span/p
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