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We break through the clouds, and I throw my arms wide, pushing past the pain and screaming with it all in the same breath, setting the molten energy within me free, and for the first time in my life, I force the power downward.
Letsgooo
“Aren’t you going to tell me how brilliant that idea was?” Tairn scoffs. “I chose you last year for that brilliance, and now you’d like to be congratulated like it’s something new? How odd.” “You’re impossible to impress.” “I’m a dragon, a Black Morningstartail.
Lmao i love them
“And I cried like an infant while Liam died. Turn around.”
:(
“Oh, damn!” Sawyer cringes. “Why would she… Are you…” Rhiannon, Quinn, and even Imogen stare at him as the first-years head inside. “Think about where she sleeps!” Ridoc smacks the back of Sawyer’s head. “Ow! Right. You’re still in Riorson’s room,”
Lmao sawyer!!!
“Oh!” I blink, putting the pieces together. Jesinia. “Don’t worry, Sawyer. I’ve got you.
Awwwww
This is why Xaden had me practicing runes with fabric. Is that man ever going to learn to just tell me things outright? Or am I always going to have to dig information out of him?
Lmaoooo
“I kept it closed in my fist—we all did—as we stood there, watching our parents put into lines for execution. And the second they were…” His shoulders rise as he takes a deep breath. “…burned, heat raced up my arm. The next time I felt anything like that was after Threshing.” My eyes widen, and I close my hand over his. “The rebellion relics?” That must be why the swirling marks always start on the marked ones’ arms.
Plot
“Without killing your opponent,” Emetterio continues, talking directly at Aaric before moving on, “for the next six hours, every request—between cadets of the same year—for challenge will be granted. You will address your grievances once on these mats, and then you will put them behind you.”
This should be interesting
“Catriona Cordella and Violet Sorrengail,” Devera announces. “Disarm and take the mat.”
Yawnn ofc
“Violet?” Sloane moves to Imogen’s side. “Do me a favor and kick her ass.”
Alright sloane i like you now
“Scratch her eyes out,” Andarna suggests. “Really. The eyes are the softest tissue. Just jab your thumbs in there—” “Andarna! Use some common sense,” Tairn snaps. “The kneecaps are a much easier target.” “Quiet time, now.” I slam my shields up, muting Tairn and Andarna as much as possible.
LMFAOOOO PLS
Holy shit. She fights like Xaden. He trained both of us.
Are you shitting me rn
“I know how good he is. I’m the one who taught him that little trick he does with his fingers. You know, the one where he curls—”
Im gonna kill this girl
Gods, do you even know why he didn’t kill you that first year? I do. Because he trusted me to look ahead with him.” She knows about the deal with my mother. He told her. My fingers tingle, and I know I’ll lose feeling in the entire limb soon, but that doesn’t stop my body from trembling with fury…with rising power. Think. I have to think. She knows all my moves, at least the ones Xaden taught me. “Look at where we are. Riorson House.” Her mouth is close enough to my ear that I can feel how hard she’s breathing. “Who wouldn’t love all that power and the case it comes in? But I’m sure as hell
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VIOLET U BETTER END IT GIRL IM SERIOUS
I’m going to fucking kill her.
Pls do im so serious
“I honestly don’t care if you kill her, Violence.” Xaden’s voice filters through the rage that holds me with the same unbreakable grip I’m using to choke the life out of my opponent. “But you will.”
Oh fuck off xaden!!!
She’s fucking cheating, using mindwork.
God i hate this bitch cant even spar properly no wonder xaden left ur ugly ass
“I need your help.”
<3
“She’s the one who’s unhinged!” Cat’s voice breaks multiple times, and she jabs her finger at me. “I’m unhinged? I’ll show you unhinged when I kill you for fucking with my head!” I lunge against Xaden’s arms, but he holds tight.
This girl is something else truly
“She got you good.” He reaches for my face, turning my head gently to examine my cheek. “But I think you got the last word.” “And how many of those humiliating words did you hear?” I don’t want the answer, but I need it. “All of them.” Fuck.
:/
Shimmering onyx wraps around my mind and everything intensifies. A driving, pounding, uncontrollable need courses through me with every beat of my pulse, demanding an outlet, demanding I rip through the confines of the leather and trade her sweet taste for the incomparable perfection of sinking into her when she comes. Xaden. I gasp for breath, gripping the conduit so tightly I prepare for the sound of breaking glass. It’s his desire flooding our bond, compounding my own. His desperation. His power brushing against mine.
Ohmygodddd thats hot
“Please don’t.” The words are forced through gritted teeth. It’s the “please” that stops me in my tracks. “I’m hanging by a thread, so I’m begging you. Please. Don’t.”
What is happening rn like yall mates or what??
You’re not a convenient placeholder for me to fuck.” This is about Cat? “I know that.” So much for the afterglow of the world’s longest orgasm. I’m right back to pissed. “But you don’t.”
:(((
“I don’t like…not reciprocating.” He lifts my left foot, slipping on my boot. “I don’t like you thinking you’re not the center of my fucking world, yet here we are.
<3
“Sorry to inconvenience you, but this year the role of Violet Sorrengail”—he points to me—“will be played by Xaden Riorson”—he taps his chest—“who will drag her, kicking and screaming if he has to, into a real relationship with real discussions, because he refuses to lose her again. If I have to evolve, you do, too.” He folds his arms across his chest.
LOL
“That trick you mentioned? You know, with the fingers?” A slow smile spreads across my face. “Thanks.” Cat’s eyes bulge.
Oh violet ily
“Did you steal my memories every time you touched my face last year?” I blurt out, letting the cold seep into my palm. Silence fills the chamber for a long moment before he finally responds softly. “No.” I nod and pivot to face him. “So just when you needed information you couldn’t ask me for.”
Still not okay
“I know that now.” He squeezes his eyes shut. “I fucked up.” A deep breath later, he opens them. “I fucked up and trusted my dad when I should have trusted your judgment. And there’s nothing I can say or do that’s going to bring them back—bring Liam back.”
I reakly dont care for this redemption arc but i guess were going forward with it
“I’m so sorry, Violet.” “It’s not all right,” I whisper. “I don’t know how to even start making it all right. I just know that I can’t think about Liam and look at you at the same time without…” I shake my head. “I don’t want to hate you, Dain, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to—”
Good
Garrick and I heard the end of what he said in the interrogation chamber, and trust me, I might be in love with him after that declaration,
Lmao dain dont make me like you now
“I love watching it do that.” It’s the only time my power is beauty without destruction—without violence. “You’re not watching it, Violet. You’re doing it. And you’re supposed to love it. It’s better to find joy in your power than it is to fear it.” “I don’t fear the power.” How could I when it’s so beautiful? So varied? I’m afraid of myself.
:(
The blood of life is actually the breath of life, and setting the stone ablaze in an iron flame… I close the journals and sit back in my chair. The six doesn’t refer to riders. “They’re dragons,”
Plot
And I think I know how to do it. But that’s why we wanted to talk to you, because it will mean you fliers wouldn’t be able to wield.”
Plot
“The one who watched thinks you’ll never yield, that we should kill you before you grow into your full abilities.”
This dream is gonna become reality and were finally gonna see their general arent we?
the most illogical of mortal emotions—love. Or you’ll die.” He shrugs. “You both will.”
Oh absolutely not rebecca
“Good to see you, Vi,” Garrick says as he walks by, tapping me on the shoulder. “You definitely need to make him tell you about the venin he took down just outside Draithus.” “You what?” My stomach pitches sideways. “Thanks for that, asshole.” Xaden glares at Garrick. “Just doing my part to help your communication skills thrive in a stable relationship.” Garrick turns and walks backward, lifting his hands in a shrug.
Lmao garrick
“Because I promised him I’d take care of her. So, you can aim all that hatred right here.” I tap my gloved hand to my chest. “He was wrong to ask that of you.” Sloane catches up, Visia close behind. “Because Imogen would have been a more capable protector?” I ask, only able to hold her too familiar blue gaze for a heartbeat before looking away. “No. Because you already carry the weight of protecting Xaden’s life. It was unfair of him to burden you with mine, too.” She huffs a breath into her cupped, gloved hands to warm them.
Once again pls atop talking about liam im begging at this point
“Of course she is. You never seem to have a problem saving her,” Cat mutters.
God shut up you insufferable hag
At least it’s missing that damp scent from the interrogation chamber, but it’s close enough to make me pause. “You ended the one who kept you prisoner,” Andarna reminds me, following Kira in, tucking her wings tight to fit through the opening. “Fear isn’t always logical.”
:(
“Second signets only happen when a dragon bonds a rider in the direct familial line as its previous,”
Plot?
“No. They smell of stolen magic when you get close enough.” She lifts her head, taking up three-quarters of the tunnel. “This smells of…dragons.”
Uh oh
glaring at us through its only remaining eye.
Shit
“She’s fireproof,”
Makes sense
right over the charred remains of Visia’s bones.
Rebecca can u pls stop killing everyone
I shove the prongs of the conduit into the soft joint between his scales as Andarna sinks her teeth between his neck and shoulder, distracting him, and then I wield. Energy sizzles up my arm and into my fingertips where they meet the metal. Control. This is all about control. With one hand raised, wielding the delicate strain of energy, I back away from Solas as quickly as I dare, feeding more and more power into the stream, and then I pour everything—
Go violet go
Liam. I must be dead.
:(
“I drained you.” Sloane holds up trembling hands, staring at them like they don’t belong to her. “I drained you!” She grasps my shoulders, yanking my focus from the dark as my head swims.
Signet??
“She is as Naolin was,” Tairn says. “You’re not turning.” I take her hands from my shoulders and stare into the darkness as footsteps sound, talons clicking along the rock. “I’m not?” “Your signet manifested,” I whisper, my eyes straining to see into the cave opening. “You’re a siphon.”
OH SHITTTT SLOANE LETSGOOOO
it’s the blood dripping from the poisoned barb on her tail. “You killed him.” My shoulders dip in relief. “You killed Solas.” Pride and worry assault me at the same time, but I can’t force my shields up before Tairn’s voice fills my very existence. “Slayer.”
LFGOOOO
