Nora Hikari | ODE TO THE SWORD LOGIC

For Oryx, the Taken King Once I could have loved. But love was cleaved damp from my body. Carved soft and wet from the rest of my hard existence, cast aside, with everything that could be renamed “submission.” Power is easy; it costs only cruelty. A sword is not a weapon, or a tool. It…

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