A. K. Caggiano

Damien and Amma have landed themselves in the midst of Yvlcon, the preeminent congregation of the vilest and most unscrupulous villains in existence. Once again amongst his peers, Damien's moral growth is threatened just when he's learning to be slightly less evil. Consequently, Amma finds her own virtue in peril when faced with so much temptation, namely in the form of a domineering blood mage she can't-- or doesn't want-- to say no to. But a burgeoning romance is doused in the coldest of baths when the Grand Order of Dread commands Damien to once again face the swirling vortex of entropy that's been hunting them all over the realm. The coming eclipse points to devastation and destruction, and there seems to be no avoiding annihilation, prophecy being, well, prophecy, after all. But there's an entire fortnight before the world is supposed to end, and surely that's enough time to find some way around it, or to at least confess one's devotion to the other before it all burns down around them.

Eclipse of the Crown

I should have known, it’s impossible to tell a necromancer anything—the whole bringing-stuff-back-from-the-dead thing really goes to their heads.

How many times could he say, But I did it for you, before she would request he do nothing for her at all?

Skin soft and warm beneath his fingers, he gave it a squeeze, meaning to reassure her he hadn’t actually devolved into the brutish villain he was playing at. If only someone would assure him it was all an act.

“No, that is not what I am saying. The rest of these villains are just uncouth, and I prefer nuance to my cruelty.”

Maybe it was dark, this thing inside her, but that didn’t mean it was bad.

“She’s not stupid,” Damien mumbled, the only thing he felt capable of arguing against. 

“Perhaps not, but she is good, and that’s practically the same thing.”

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