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    The shadow made her an offer: stay in the castle with him, and the regiment would survive the harsh winter that had trapped them all in the ice-sheeted valley below. 
    Alina paused. When the monster spoke, he seemed to gather himself together a bit more, pulling a simulacrum of a man out of the smoky gloom so subtly that it almost seemed like a trick of the light—shadows playing on shadows.
    “How do I know you’ll keep your word?”
    It was dizzying to look at the monster, especially as the wind whipped her lantern flame and cast flickering shadows throughout the room; he—Alina was fairly sure it was a he—seemed to be made of darkness itself, a shifting mass of smoke that coalesced rather than dissipated. 
    “I have no reason to lie,” he said, his voice crackling like flames in a hearth. 
    Alina furrowed her brow. “You have plenty of reasons to lie. What could you possibly want from me?”
    She must have been mad from hunger, because she swore the monster looked flustered, inasmuch as featureless smoke could look like anything.

     

     

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    A Darklina smoke monster Beauty and the Beast AU.

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    Fate is cruel, my little sun. I once thought the cruelty of the world was a lesson you needed to learn to become my equal.

    Now, when I see the phantoms that haunt your dark eyes, I wish I could erase the ways I have wronged you.

    You have ruled at my side for decades, and now Time has claimed the last of your companions.

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    This Alina is different...
    Or, what if Mal wasn't a big dumb dumb and confessed his feelings much sooner.

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    "And thus the Sun Saint’s prophecy came to pass, and the Shadow Fold was destroyed with the sacrifice of Sankta Alina."

    Istoriya Ravkaskoy Traditsii, Book 6, Volume 2, Chapter 39.

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    “We could kill the king,” Aleksander proposes, causally, as if he is proposing his choice for breakfast and not regicide, his rook taking her knight neatly, and Alina finds herself gaping at him.

    In which The Darkling and The Sun Summoner play chess, and Aleksander teaches Alina how to be equals.

    A cosmic love sequel.

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