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following text has been faithfully transcribed from Navarrian into the modern language by Jesinia Neilwart, Curator of the Scribe Quadrant at Basgiath War College. All events are true, and names have been preserved to honor the courage of those fallen. May their souls be commended to Malek.
Not this again
Brennan is alive.
Oh Brennan
“I, too, think you need to eat something.”
Ugh missed him
Consider it a twenty-first-birthday present.” “Thank you.” That’s right. I slept right through my birthday.
She should be out at the club
And standing in front of that map, one arm leaning against a massive chair as he stares down the table at its occupants, is Xaden.
There he is!!! My favorite boy!!!
Xaden may be gorgeous, and powerful, and terrifyingly lethal—which shouldn’t be the turn-on it is—but I can’t trust him to tell me the truth about…well, anything. Which really hurts, considering how pathetically in love with him I am.
:((( violet pls
“Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.”
Lmfao real
My throat tightens, and I blink back the burn in my eyes. Soleil and Liam didn’t survive. Liam. Blond hair and sky-blue eyes fill my memory, and pain erupts behind my ribs. His boisterous laugh. His quick smile. His loyalty and kindness. It’s all gone. He’s gone.
I cant handle this actually
“Xaden has already taken responsibility for her.” Imogen sidesteps, moving slightly closer to me. “As brutal of a custom as it may be.”
Huh??
“Decision was simple. She’s worth a dozen of me,”
Gawdddddd
“She is standing right here,”
Thats my girl
“Naolin… He was—” His jaw flexes. “Tairn’s previous rider,” I suggest slowly, wondering if he was more than that to Brennan.
Intrigue
“We think the iron box Garrick Tavis found at Resson is some kind of lure, but we had to destroy it before we could fully investigate. A box like it was found in Jahna, already smashed.” He glances my way. “But the craftsmanship is Navarrian.”
Plot
“You have a wardstone,” I murmur, my thoughts spinning. They wouldn’t need as many weapons if they had wards. If they could generate their own protection, maybe they could weave extensions into Poromiel, like we’ve expanded our wards to their max. Maybe we could keep at least some of our neighbors safe…
Plot
Turns out, falling in love with someone only brings that blissful high all the poets talk about if they love you back. And if they keep secrets that jeopardize everyone and everything you hold dear? Love doesn’t even have the decency to die. It just transforms into abject misery. That’s what this ache in my chest is: misery.
:(((
“Ah.” Brennan shoots me a look I can’t quite interpret. “I wondered why he ran out of here like his ass was on fire. Trouble in paradise?” I flat-out glare at Brennan. “It’s best if you don’t know that.”
LOL
“Don’t take it personally,” I say right to her face. “She doesn’t like anyone but Xaden, and she only tolerates me, though I’m growing on her.”
My softie sgaeyl <3
What. The. Fuck? That can’t be… No. Impossible. “Stay calm. She’ll respond to your agitation and wake in a temper,” Tairn warns. I stare at the sleeping dragon—who is almost twice the size she had been a few days ago—and try to get my thoughts to line up with what I’m seeing, what my heart already knows thanks to the bond between us. “That’s…” I shake my head, and my pulse begins to race.
MY BABIEEEEEE
“Her scales are black.”
Say what now?? Rip goldie
“Black dragons are rare but not unheard of.” “And I happened to bond to two of them?” I counter, outright glaring at him.
Badass.
She didn’t know.
Ok redemtion arc lol
Fucking Dain.
Vomit
“You are not disappointed?” “You’re alive.
:( oh goldie
There is no moment as rewarding, as stirring, as…anticlimactic as a Riders Quadrant Graduation. It’s the only time I’ve ever envied the Infantry Quadrant. Now those cadets know how to hold a ceremony.
lmaoooo im cyinggg
“It never occurred to me to hide anything from you.”
:(
Andarna counters with what seems to be her new default form of conversation—telling Tairn he’s wrong.
This is gonna be fun
Hell, I would have threaded my fingers through his hair and pulled him in for a kiss.
If u dont i will
My entire body warms as he kisses the sensitive skin of my palm.
Kill me
It’s that one percent, constantly screaming at me that he used to be my best friend, that’s the kicker.
Yawnnnnn
He is not doing this to me. “‘Anything you want to know and everything you don’t.’ Those were your words.” “Everything about me.” Oh, fuck me, he is doing this to me. Again. I shake my head. “That is not what you promised.”
Oh xaden
“I can forgive you for keeping me in the dark before today. You did it to save lives, possibly even mine. But it’s complete and total honesty from now on, or…” Gods, am I going to have to say it? Am I really about to issue an ultimatum to Xaden-fucking-Riorson? “Or what?” He leans in, his eyes sharpening. “Or I’ll get busy unfalling for you,” I spit out. Surprise flares in his eyes a second before a corner of his mouth lifts into a smirk. “Good luck with that. I tried it for a good five months. Let me know how it works out for you.”
Well fuck
“Garrick Tavis. Xaden Riorson.” Captain Fitzgibbons’s voice carries over the formation as he reads from the death roll. “Well, this is awkward,” Xaden calls out. And every head in the courtyard turns in our direction.
Lets gooo
My mother locks eyes with me for one heartbeat, a side of her mouth tilting upward in an expression I’m almost scared to call…pride, before she quickly masks it, resuming the professional distance she’s maintained impeccably for the last year.
Hmmmmm
the general is pissed.
Okkkkk
Here we go. “I have no idea,” Aetos grinds out. “I was directed to take a squad beyond the wards to Athebyne and form the headquarters for Fourth Wing’s War Games, and I did so. We stopped to rest our riot at the nearest lake past the wards, and we were attacked by gryphons.” The lie rolls off his tongue as smoothly as the truth, which is both impressive…and infuriating, because he doesn’t have a single fucking tell. My mother blinks, and Aetos’s thick brows furrow.
Plot
“You cannot kill him here,” Xaden warns.
Booo no fun
“Touch me and I swear to the gods, I’ll cut your fucking hands off and let the quadrant sort you out in the next round of challenges, Dain Aetos.” My words earn more than a couple of gasps, but I don’t give a shit who hears me.
FUCKING FINALLY
“Violence,
<3333333
Oh, just kill me now. Heat flushes my cheeks. Getting caught in his flight jacket before War Games is one thing. Outing us in public—when I’m not sure there is an us—is another.
HEHE
“But in case it’s not, every time you think of reaching for her face, I want you to remember one word.” “And what is that?” Dain seethes. “Athebyne.” Xaden pulls back, and the pure menace in his expression sends a shiver along my skin. Dain’s spine stiffens as Colonel Panchek calls the formation to attention.
Exactly
“That was hot,”
Agreed
“Love triangles can get so fucking awkward, don’t you think?” Imogen says. I shoot a glare over my shoulder at her for going along with Xaden’s implication—or assumption, but she shrugs unapologetically.
Lmaoooo
Nausea grips my stomach, and I sway. He’ll be gone by morning. Gone. Telling myself that I’ll see him every few days because of Tairn and Sgaeyl’s mating bond doesn’t quell the panic quickening my breaths. He won’t be here.
:(((
I’ll never push another library cart with Liam.
Ok violet just rip my heart out why dont you
“To Liam,”
Literally kms
“Whatever is going through that beautiful mind, I’m here for it.”
Ughhhhhhh i love him
“Do be careful who you share your war stories with, Violet. I’d hate to see your mother lose either of her daughters.”
Man fuck u and ur loser son
“Too bad,” he whispers, lifting his head. “But like I said, anticipation is a good thing.”
Ugh nooooo kiss!!! Booooo
“Because you still love me.”
That she does
“Aetos is our new wingleader.”
Ofc
