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"Jove held the baby up to the light. It was a squishy, wet, pallid thing, a little jaundiced and soft in the wrong places. Misshapen and pathetic. It was a bag of skin stretched over rolls of fat that bunched at the wrists and neck and ankles, soft-boned and bloody. Jove's gloves left smears of sticky, red blood over the baby's neck and belly, so thick and congealed it was almost black. Except that he could see its chest rise and fall with the strength of a bird, the baby was so silent it seemed dead."
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In a world under the terrifying iron grip of the Sanguinary--blood mages with incredible power and unmitigated political influence--Jove decides he wants to raise a child. He is not the right person to raise a child. He is, rather, the right person to raise a weapon.
(One day, this weapon of his will be raised against him, but until then, it loves him.)Series
- Part 1 of Sanguinite