The mayor asked if we wanted her to open the doors. No, that’s what Cara would have wanted. We want them to no longer have doors to open. — That night in his room when my brother told me the plan, he said it like it was his own, but I recognized Adam’s fingerprints around the edges. The city thought we were making a treaty for Ashtown protection in exchange for Adam infusing the barsamin into the atmosphere. But we weren’t. We were getting access to the atmosphere so we would never have to ask for anything again. We knew the city would reject us, knew there would need to be a battle outside,
...more
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
