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“I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.”
“My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck ...”
“It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.”
“Goodbye, Christian," I murmur."Ana, goodbye," he says softly, and he looks utterly, utterly broken,a man in agonizing pain, reflecting how I feel inside. I tear my gaze away from him before I can c...”
“And so a pattern develops: wake, work cry. sleep. I can't even escape him in my dreams. Gray burning eyes, his lost look, his hair burnished and bright and bright all haunt me. And the music... so ...”
“You make me sound like an arrogant ass," he said."Are you?""No! I'm just me.”
“Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no mo...”
“I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-t...”
“There is a glimmer of metal that wavers between his thighs. He turns to face me. The balls of his large gauge nipple rings catch my eye as they glint in the light of the room. But, it is the tintin...”
“The Guardians of the Overhead hold the most power in Heaven. They have the power to not only heal, but project. They can influence other Healers around them to make sure that Healer makes better ju...”
“Mother knocked once on my door and walked in my room to see me on my bed with the book tight in my grasp. She looked at my night dress and smiled. Expecting company? She asked. I flushed. It was a ...”
“So the peasants are used as targets in war? I doubted. Does the Overhead feel that is necessary to kill off one of their own? Peasants are being placed as diversions on the front line like they mea...”
“The Overhead bears the most powerful Healers in Heaven, Mother began softly. The Healersor Guardian Angels, as we were once known asare given the most power from the sun. Our powers to heal others ...”
“So the peasants are used as targets in war?” I doubted. “Does the Overhead feel that is necessary to kill off one of their own? Peasants are being placed as diversions on the front line like they m...”
