No light, no light. I'll make a lionhearted pup out of you.
-Pinot.
Russet has never cried before. He's never been one to cry.
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She's got luck, and luck's what got him to become her mentor. Like a game of Russian roulette, it was all luck.
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Maybe he'll build her up to break himself down. Maybe he'll forge the very weapon that will kill him. Maybe he''ll mold her from a kitten pup, to a lionhearted one, instead.
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Everything about Spider, Streamwaters - It's carefully formulated, a sham designed to mislead and beguile. Soft and whispery and rising to a feral snarl too easily when Russet sidesteps her and says, "maybe".