Last line tag!

IIRC @perringwrites​ maybe tagged me in this? But since I haven’t written a new word in like six months Imma just give you a paragraph from the chapter that’s up next for posting on wattpad from Vale.

Context: Cephas takes off after one of the deadly powerful royal witches so naturally Vale has to stop him before he could follow her inside the castle where he will surely be killed. In a panicked frenzy Vale gets to the outside gates of the castle, praying that Cephas hadn’t been killed yet.

He can’t be inside already. Maybe he didn’t even come this way. Maybe he’s dead already.

Then I hear slight grunting to the far right of the fence where a natural border, the side of the mountain separates the downtown from the factory district. There I discover Cephas in the bushes, bouncing on his tiptoes, trying to get a grip on the metal bars of the fence. He’s all red in the face and sweat is pouring from his scalp. I stop and fold my arms.

“I have to give you this much: the guards haven’t noticed you yet.”

I have never heard Cephas shriek up until this point but now that I have scared him into pushing himself off the fence and falling on his backside, it’s a delightful experience.

“Fucking hell,” he groans once he’s standing again, rubbing his butt.

Oh no but this chapter has such fun lines, like

“I’ve built a capable team but with the witches protecting Zavier there’s no way we can get a hold of him. You got anything to take them out?”

“Not momentarily, no,” I admit and look at the staircase in front of me that I’ll have to climb to get to the king’s suite. “But I have a feeling he’ll be fine with me hopping in through his window.”

“And if he’s not?”

I look back at Mason whose expression isn’t unlike a constipated goat’s. There’s a lot going on in that head of hers. I put a hand on her shoulder.

“You should know that I’ve always loved you.”

“Piss off,” Mason swats my hand away with a faint smile.

Or when Vale throws herself in through Zavier’s bedroom window and says these words out loud

“The last time I had this many sharp bits in my mouth I was having a completely different party.”

before noticing three of the royal witches have her surrounded.

And that one time I was behind on my wordcount goal so I had Vale recite an entire paragraph from like ten chapters ago and had her comment on how she remembered it word-by-word and planned to take it out through editing but it’s way too fond of a memory.

I’m not doing these tags correctly, am I?