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“Shit.” I rub my hands over my face. “I didn’t mean to say that out loud.” He doesn’t respond.
“You’re an inntinnsic,”
“I’m a type of inntinnsic,” he repeats slowly, like it’s the first time he’s ever said the words. “I can read intentions. Maybe I would know what to call it if they didn’t kill everyone with even a hint of the signet.”
drawn, I can recognize that telling me, whether or not he wanted to, was the ultimate gesture of trust.
The color drains from Mom’s face as she looks between Mira and me, past us, and for the first time in my life, I see her wobble, like someone has knocked her off her center.
“I need to know you’ll be here. That no matter what happens, you’ll come back so we can talk it out or fight it out.” His gaze drops to my mouth, then skims over my features. My heart clenches, and I slide my hand along his chest, around his ribs, to his back, and then I hold on. “Done.”
“About a month after the shadows did. I’d already seen Carr kill another first-year for reading minds, so when it hit, I held my shit together and went to Sgaeyl, and when Carr asked if I’d had any other strange abilities emerge, since they knew Sgaeyl had bonded one of my relatives, I lied my ass off. And when my ability to control shadows seemed stronger than they’d expected, they had no reason to dig deeper.”
Melgren was bluffing, banking on us not fully understanding how the wards work.
“Black really does suit you, Violet.” It might be the nicest thing she’s ever said to me.
For the first time, I’m the one holding what might be the ultimate secret.
“You must save yourself,” Tairn demands. “I chose you not as my next, but as my last, and should you fall, then I will follow.”
It’s all that’s left of my mother.
With every tear, I feel my feet gain traction on a spinning world, feel the first waves of shock start to pass.
Just like my fucking nightmares.