Hannah

“Oh, same.” Koa’s words made Quin look over him more carefully for a moment longer. He scanned the earth spirit up and down for a brief moment, noting the impatience, the restlessness, the boredom,...

Koa made his way over to Quin's side, and the human grinned at the earth spirit's question and laced his hands behind his head casually, and smiled as if he'd rather be here than anywhere else. "I ...

(I took the liberty of doing a time skip. Hope you don’t mind!) ***Three hours after*** When the time limit for signing up for the Trials had passed, some of the guards and volunteers who dir...

For some reason, as soon as Quin was done with his little performance, his eyes darted, just for a moment, in Koa’s direction. To his pleasure, the half-spirit was looking at him, an eyebrow raised...

The half-demon glared at Koa. **”I didn’t need your help,”** they said. **”I had it handled just fine.”** He crossed his arms and half turned away. This wasn’t true, as anyone could have seen. ...

Koa’s words filled Quin with a burst of sadness that he quickly shoved away. Emotions had never been his strong suit, but he ached for the half-spirit next to him. He kept his face carefully blank,...

The man in front of Quin had some prejudice toward humans, he could tell. Even the way he said, “Human, I gather?” made his skin crawl — although he didn’t show it. Oh well. The other man - Koa, as...

The other man’s face softened slightly when he joked, and Quin had to restrain himself from fist pumping victoriously. *I’m so good at this.* He pretended to consider the other man’s answer, bef...

The guy next to Quin didn’t seem thrilled with the fact that he spoke to him. But Quin had never let that bother him, especially when the challenge of making someone laugh sparked his blood so. ...

If Quin were more inclined to listen to his common sense, he would terrified to join the Monarch Trials, and would think that maybe, just *maybe,* this was a bad idea. However, he had never been to...