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Break or die. It’s one or the other in Halazar Prison. I refuse to do either.
Graysword: the name given to all orphaned and unwanted children in Eclipse City. The name I gave when I was captured. The name that told the world I had no family to take down with me.
But in a surprising reversal of historical precedent, King Naethor Oricalis put Kaelis in control of the fortress and allowed him to found the academy within around his eighteenth birthday—a scandalously young age.
“Not about you. Never you. Luck is on your side, after all.”
Luck is on my side…The closest thing I’ve yet felt to pure, unyielding terror dizzies my thoughts. He knows me.
“I have that kind of face.” He glances away. “I’m no one you need to concern yourself with. Better off forgotten. Think of this as nothing more than a dream.”
“Mother didn’t talk about him. All I know is, it was after he left that we fell on hard times. He didn’t care enough to ever come around again, and that meant I had no reason to seek him out. If we were dead to him, then he is dead to me.”
“There is no world in which you do not consume my very being.”
Why can I not stop thinking of you? Why do I want you so badly? Why does everything with you straddle the line of pleasure and pain? Why is it that it’s never enough?
“What do you know of the Worldkeepers?”
