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@denali-christianson

yay! This oughta be cool. Let’s see if Qatar has a gentlemanly side, after all. 😉

Qatar

The girl froze. The eyes that looked up into his were big and concerned.

“You…want to kill him?”

Qatar looked past her, as if he could look through the rocky wall and into some other time when things were happier.

“No.” he turned back to look at her.”It was just a bad joke–bad timing, I suppose.”

He looked at the hand that held the knife Quin had cut him with. “I’ll take that.”

Her head snapped up, her face dark and skeptical.

“Don’t worry. I wouldn’t do anything to him–or you or myself. I like murder and death just as little as you do.” He shifted his shoulders as if something in his chest hurt. “Especially just now.”

besides, it might be useful to have a knife here. Everyone but himself and Quin were armed. His knife still lay in the field where he’d set it, a moment before appearing in this dark prison.

Slowly, the girl relaxed her grip on the knife, and Qatar reached down and took it.

As he felt the handle, he couldn’t help but run his fingers over the place Quin’s hand had been. Little brother! You’re the worst.

He looked up at the girl, and realized that he was standing right in front of her, blocking any way of escape. The way she was pressed against the wall told him that she might want to get away.

He sighed. Ever since the day It happened he’d wanted to be able to be himself with someone. The Quin he had known had died with Mama, and Garrick never would be the friend Quin had been. Even if he is a blood brother, and Quin is only half.

His eyes strayed to where Quin was, standing in front of Liorah…holding her hand?

He raised his eyebrows. Okay, little brother.

He looked down at Evie. Her eyes were like steel, but deep inside he thought he saw something else. The same look he had seen in Quin’s eyes, and Grace’s. Fright. He took a step back. “I’m Qatar. Your name is…?”

She relaxed a little as he moved away, and licked her lips.

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No idea if any of this is correct–change what you will. Also, what is Evie’s height, eye color, hair color? I feel like I got it wrong, because I’m perpetually forgetting those things, lol. Take it from here, I can’t wait to see where this goes. Qatar’s heart is more than half surrendered already, but don’t tell him I said that, or I might be in trouble.