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The only signet more terrifying than an inntinnsic is a truth-sayer. And yet we let them live. —Major Afendra’s Guide to the Riders Quadrant (Unauthorized Edition)
TRUTH SAYERRRRR
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vivianna ♡☆ 🎧📖Bodhi’s signets can counter OTHER signets… dang
Half palace, half barracks, but entirely a fortress, Riorson House has never been breached by army. It survived countless sieges and three full-out assaults before falling under the flame of the very dragons it existed to serve. —On Tyrrish History, a Complete Accounting, third edition by Captain Fitzgibbons
Xaden is elite on every level fr
I will hunt you to the ends of the Continent and beyond.”
“There is no where in existence you could go where I wouldn’t find you, Violence” coded - kinda sus
“Can you carry a luminary?” “That question insults me.” “Can you carry a luminary while insulted?” she prods. Tairn growls.
SHE IS THAT DIVA
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Why would Mom and Melgren let them just…go?
this is actually very interesting during the reread…
“It’s you,” the dark wielder says over the growing noise of the storm. “The one who commands the sky.” His eyes widen in eerie excitement. “Oh, how I’ll be rewarded when I return with you.”
Gods, I wish Xaden were here. He’d simply pluck Luella up with shadows and ferry her across. Then again, he just might let her fall. I never quite know when it comes to other people.
“Good. That hilt is eight inches—” “Seven,” Dain corrects. “Imagine a man actually shortening a girl’s estimate,” Maren teases.
“Runes aren’t just decorative. They’re strands of magic pulled from our power, woven into geometric patterns for specific uses, then placed into an object, either for immediate work or usage at a later date. We call the process ‘tempering.’”
“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.”
“My house. My chair. My woman.”
“I don’t like you thinking you’re not the center of my fucking world, yet here we are.
I note the heavy gray clouds moving in from the west. “It’s already snowing up the pass. I bet we get seven inches tonight.” “Maybe more if you’re good.” A corner of his mouth lifts as he cuts into the cake with the fork.
exposing an expanse of tan arm under his robes,
coming so close I can smell a hint of something sweet on his breath.
“All you had to do was ask, and even if you weren’t aware it was coming, you know I’d never let it hurt you. I’m not the one you don’t trust.”
“What is that supposed to mean?”
“Love, you’re the smartest person I know. If you actually wanted the answers, you’d ask the right questions.” His voice softens as his thumb sweeps along my jawline. “You knew about the deal. Maybe the question you ...
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“Because I lo...
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“Because I want to think you kept me alive those first few months before Threshing because you were intrigued or impressed by me or attracted to me like I was to you, and not because you made a deal with my mother.
Because it’s horrifying to think that the only reason you fell in love with me is because of her. Because maybe you’re right and I didn’t want that particular truth, since I know there’s a thin line between devotion and obsession, between cowardice and self-preservation, and I’m walking it when it comes to you. I love you so fucking much that I ignored every warning signal last year, and now half the time I don’t know what side of that line I’m standing on because I’m too busy looking at you to watch my own feet!”
I am a person who needs information to center myself.”
as Baide lowers her head, and I get a single glimpse of her eyes—opaque instead of golden—before
