PART I | "Are you really a queen if your world is in ashes?" |
After a devastating attack destroys her palace, Sera finds refuge on Earth and meets Matthew, the confident leader of the Allegiant Academy. This academy is the last defense against a...
In this particular chapter, there's a slight deviation to the flow of the book. it unfolds as a series of montage mini-snippets, encapsulating the three months that have transpired. The backdrop is set to "I could get used to this" (orchestra version) by Becky Hill. ✌🏻
So whether this chapter remains or not, I don't know, but take it for what it is. ✌🏻A collection dump of a musical montage that came about during the months in between ( before the wedding) for the couple. ♥️
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Eko had learned from Matthew since she met him that they had to count their moments in the war through all the deaths. It's their way to still feel connected to their humanity. It's a way to grieve over the loss of things that will never be.
Teddy described it as a practice serving as their link to humanity. She believes he intended to convey that she was meant to savor the moments rather than exist in perpetual anxiety.
Matthew said during that last meeting with the three of them that if they didn't count their moments and didn't cherish them in the manner they had, then what was the point of this war?
What were they even fighting for?
She hated to admit it but the quack really did work his magic on her fiancée, and maybe he just held some merit aswell.
She wasn't going to tell Jesse that though.
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With her sword piercing the heart of another monster, Eko glanced at her fiancé over her shoulder, drenched in blood, decapitating a creature of his own. Sky blue eyes observed him in awe, knowing how he had changed her over the last ten months since she arrived in his life.
Each kiss was etched in her memory, defined by the moments they shared. As they created more memories, time seemed to accelerate.
She had noticed this when her hair grew longer, cascading naturally past her shoulders and lightening in hue of her brunette. Everything had flown past during the last three months since he proposed, and even if Isis and Cid remained in hiding for whatever reason.
Even if the academies were growing and there were more and more soldiers attending.
In the face of a staggering death toll and daily battles for their future, Eko knew she was precisely where she needed to be. There was no other place in these worlds she wanted to be – finally discovering a place to call her own.
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Days seamlessly transformed into weeks as she draped herself over his back in the heat of battle, precisely at the opportune moment. Beheading a sun scorcher, she swiftly pivoted to vanquish a nightwalker before turning on her heel.
