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    “Now I'm going to wash your beard,” Verso muttered suddenly in a low voice, and Gustave obediently nodded and tilted his chin towards his chest, still keeping his eyes closed. Verso leaned over him and rinsed his cheeks, mouth and neck with hot water. The sound of the girls' conversations and laughter faded into the background, the world narrowing to the measured Gustave’s breathing on fingertips and his own heartbeat.

    “You have very gentle hands,” Gustave tilted his head back again, exposing it to the water, and opened his eyes. Verso panicked silently. “You must have many years of experience.”

    “Oh, the inability to die gives one the opportunity to master one's hobby to perfection,” Verso joked. Gustave touched the back of his hand and said nothing, only stroking knuckles with his thumb, and before Verso could come up with the brilliant idea of catching his hand, he hid it under the water.

    “Someday you'll have to open up to us, won't you, Verso?”

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    A protector. A strong, smart, loving brother. A dreamer. A joker. A sacrifice she had never asked for and a loss that had shattered her.

    There! She’d found it. The chroma was right there, bright and bountiful and so much closer than she would have thought after all these months. Maelle grasped it and pulled, eyes screwed shut and sweat beading on her brow.

    Behind her, Verso made a strangled sound. Monoco clattered to his feet, crying out, and Esquie took to the air calling, “Mon ami!”

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    Maelle brings Gustave back using Verso's chroma.

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    Chapter 5

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    “Mark me,” Verso demanded against Gustave’s mouth. “I want to feel it tomorrow.”
    Gustave’s eyes flashed. Then his mouth was on Verso’s throat, teeth scraping, biting, and the sharp pain made Verso gasp.
    Gustave’s nails raked down Verso’s back, scratching hard enough to draw blood. Marking him, like he wanted . Claiming him.
    And Verso loved the violence. Loved the proof that this was real, that Gustave wanted him enough to leave marks.

    The Fracture Zone is where people are sent to die.
    Painters and Writers, enemies for five hundred years, embark on expeditions to reach the Monolith. None survive—until Expedition 33.
    Gustave Virlogeux has lost almost everything, and his grief has turned to rage.
    Verso Dessendre is already dead inside. The perfect weapon, buried so deep under control he can't remember what feeling looks like.
    They've been circling each other for years: enemies on the battlefield, strangers in the dark.
    Until one desperate choice binds them in forbidden magic, and suddenly they can't hide anymore.
    They'll learn that some connections are stronger than hatred, and that some enemies were never meant to be enemies at all.

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    Chapter 13

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    Gustave dies.

    It is a sordid affair, full of sacrifice and pain. There is nothing beautiful about death, Gustave thinks in the fleeting instant before his nerve endings explode all at once in his chest like fireworks. He doesn’t think anymore after that. Screams echo on the granite of the cliff, drowning the furious crashing of the waves below. He doesn’t hear them. He is dead.

    (This is not how it ends.)

    After his death, Gustave becomes unstuck in time.

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    The soul knows what it wants, even when the mind does not.

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