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But then I remember the collateral they have. The reason I can’t leave.
A child maybe?
“You remembered after forgetting, and that’s just as valuable as knowing the first time,”
Fifteen gold pieces. It’s a very good month’s wage in Umbria, but I need more. I always need more.
The world will grab and pull at your humanity, try to strip you bare, but ultimately you decide whether to hang on or let go.
The first and foremost being that Joon is known as a god king for a reason. He’s not divine, but he might as well be, since he has the crown of Yusan. The crown is a relic of the Dragon Lord, and it makes the wearer immortal.
“The Queen of Khitan.” And that catches me off guard. It’s been a while since I’ve heard from my sister.
The second he touches me, a feeling rushes through me. Our hands fit together like a lock and key, but it’s more than that. He feels like home.
legend is that the Dragon Lord gave his crown to the first Baejkin king, but his ring, scepter, sword, and amulet fell into the other realms as he ascended to the Heavens.
I think she says, “Sora, I think it’s time.” But that doesn’t match her expression. I want to ask, but guards have come to get her. She just smiles and waves goodbye. I keep thinking about what she could mean by “it’s time.” Maybe it’s because our bell was up, but we knew that already. Irad approaches, and I stop wondering. I put on my haughtiest face as I walk past, but I get a sinking feeling that I missed something vital.
I’m just not sure what good he expected to come out of both of us being dead. Sometimes revenge is a long game and, as much as you want a small win now, the larger victory needs time to manifest.
One hundred thousand guaranteed in less than ten years is a miracle for a guy like me, and just enough—if I can give it to Savio in time.
But I suppose I’m holding more secrets from him than he can ever keep from me. The largest one, I don’t even dare think about. As if remembering it will scream my shame for all to hear.
“They have had a harrowing journey and are washing up now before supper.”
Euyn and Mikail?
As if I didn’t just hear that the crown of Yusan, the gold band of the king, makes the wearer immortal. As if Daysum hadn’t whispered in my bad ear that she thinks she’s dying. As if I wasn’t just handed a way to save her life, if I can just figure out how to steal it.
No, the major issue is the fact that I am not Baejkin.
I’d worry about their connection, but in the end she’s just a girl.
Seok was the one who bought Chul’s daughters.
But he swore he never signed the indentures. Someone faked his hand, and the magistrate, who was supposed to witness the signature, filed it.
I sit back on the banquette, glad I didn’t tell Sora about her father. I would be a fool to alienate a count who gave me a gift this valuable.
What a douche!!!
It feels like I should tell her the truth.
Because you should!
No. Sora is just a lovely commoner. Just a woman. I can’t let sympathy affect my goal.
Such a dick.
Mortality makes people careful, makes them care, makes them reasonable. Gods are not reasonable.
Loving somebody is needing two hearts to live instead of just the one. You’re better off alone.
A thief, a strongman, a spy, an assassin, a nobleman, and an exiled prince add up to a ring of liars. Trust is a surefire way to wind up with a blade in your back.
Father is really all I have, even though he didn’t speak to me for years.
I wonder if her father is Joon?
We were all too far from Mikail to help. So I’m not sure what just happened. Maybe it was the gods.
I think Aeri has some kind of magic
I don’t think that even a god king can stand against six people who’d kill and die for one another.
I pass yet another fountain, and cold spray hits me along with a thought: maybe the plan is to bring me in alive.
Euyn side-eyes him. It’s what needs to be done, but burning his body also prevents anyone else from looking at the assassin. And burying the ashes is exactly what Seok used to do. Suddenly, I wonder if there’s more of a connection between them than just this plot.
Ty shakes his head. “No, it was today. Someone betrayed us, and you…you were killed.”
I wish he hadn’t spoken it. Nightmares spoken aloud have a funny way of coming to pass. Or at least that’s what my mother used to say.
the past can be rewritten—well, if you can get to the Temple of Knowledge and change the records of the Yoksa. But it’s been done before.
But in this case, Zahara is saying to bring in the traitors’ bodies instead of taking them alive. Interesting.
No. I’ll bring in the traitors. One way or another.
IM SO CONFUSED
And I never take it off. I haven’t since the night I stole it from Prince Omin’s dead body.
etherum is never suspected because people think there is no more magic in Yusan. So they believe it’s sleight of hand. Because no one knows I have the Amulet of the Dragon Lord.
“Daughter, you both delighted and disappointed me,” he says. “Father,” she says, bowing her head. But she doesn’t take her eyes off him.
I KNEW IT
