#also im watching bridgerton and its good but the main girl sort of annoys me in that she's incredibly and entirely boring outside

[hewantshisbrideback]

each bolt a burning river by mysticalmuddle

Stranger’s Night was the second full moon of fall, and moonlight the same wet glistening color of raw fat was falling through breaks in the canopy where the oak and elm trees had dropped their leaves. People came to Castle Cerwyn to party, but sometimes they left the castle to hang out in the cold, smoking or fucking or trying to set things on fire. Arya knew it didn’t have the same appeal if they could do those things inside, safe in the knowledge that Cley was too fucked up himself to try and stop them. She knew that was why her dad never said anything, even though he knew about the parties since Cley had started them in high school.

The air didn’t feel like there were people out there with her. It felt crystalline smooth, empty of everything except the scent of the trees in her mouth, her nose.

But the noise behind her still started again, less loudly. The wind creaked through the trees. Whoever walked behind her kept coming, a slow steady pace.