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Are you going to die a scribe? Or live as a rider?”
“Don’t die, Violet. I’d hate to be an only child.”
It’s not just my muscles that are weak. My ligaments that hold my joints together don’t work for shit, either.
Violet, I stayed long enough to read the rolls this morning, and you aren’t on them, thank gods. I can’t stay. I’m needed back with my wing, and even if I could stay, they wouldn’t let me see you anyway. I bribed a scribe to sneak this into your bunk. I hope you know how proud I am to be your sister. Brennan wrote this for me the summer before I entered the quadrant. It saved me, and it can save you, too. I added my own bits of hard-earned wisdom here and there, but mostly it’s his, and I know he’d want you to have it. He’d want you to live. Love, Mira.
“You’re not going to handle me?” I call after him, shock raising my brows. “Not tonight!” he tosses over his shoulder. I scoff. “What are you waiting for?” “It’s no fun if you expect it,” he answers, striding into the darkness. “Now, get back to bed before your wingleader realizes you’re out after curfew.” “What?” I gawk after him. “You’re my wingleader!”
Obsessed
“And not all strength is physical, Violet.”
“I’m going to be fine,” I recite, because that’s my fucking mantra.
“You’d rather I die, no doubt,” I fire back, the side of my face pressed into the mat. This isn’t just painful, it’s humiliating. “And be denied the pleasure of your company?” he mocks.
I feel like shit but keep from lying, at least.
2nd Read - Violet I don't wanna hear shit in Onyx Storm about Xaden keeping secrets when you keep everything from Rhi. You're trying to protect her, he's trying to protect you. What's the difference??
“You can’t interfere!” Tynan shouts at Xaden, but I don’t dare look away from my opponent long enough to see how the wingleader reacts. “No, but I can narrate,” Xaden retorts.
And strength of courage is more important than physical strength.
Her eyes fly wide. “Both dragons?” she squawks. I nod. And all hell breaks loose.
Bitch i did not see that coming
“Welcome to a family that knows no boundaries, no limits, and no end,”
Sounds manipulative as hell
God help us when Ridoc figures out how to do that.
Our Archives have either a copy or the original of almost every book in Navarre. Only ultrarare or forbidden tomes are excluded. When did folklore become either of those?
i feel like this is gonna be important
Before I can argue that point, his gaze shifts to my throat and narrows at what I imagine has to be the purple imprint of a hand. “I should have killed him slower.” “I’m fine.” I’m not. His focus snaps back to my eyes. “Never lie to me.”
Throwing up and screaming
“I know how to handle a corset.” His jaw flexes once, and something that reminds me of raw hunger flitters across his expression before he locks it down, drawing my hair over my shoulder with surprising gentleness.
“I finished this for you,” Liam says, handing me a figurine as we climb the wide spiral staircase to the third floor. It’s Tairn. He’s even mastered his snarl. “This is…incredible. Thank you.” “Thanks.” Liam gives me a grin, flashing his dimple. “I wanted to carve Andarna first, but I’m not around her as much, you know?” “She’s pretty private.” We break off from the crowd headed to the fourth floor, and I stash the dragon in my bag, then reach out and give him a hug. “Really, I love it. Thank you.” The hallway is crowded but clears as we walk farther down, nearing Professor Carr’s room.
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2nd Read - Liam deserved better :'(
I follow Dain out of the doorway, to a place along the wall where we won’t obstruct traffic. “You let Tairn share your memory with everyone instead of just showing me yourself,” he blurts, his hands falling to his sides. “I’m sorry?” What the hell is he talking about?
2nd Read - I can't stop thinking about that woman who said she pictures Dain as Liam Hemsworth because he's just like Gale from THG.. She was so right
“But keeping me safe is keeping me from growing, too.”
earth-shattering signet
2nd Read - sneaky Yarros
a red rim around his eyes
2nd Read - He was a venin so early on!!!
Little does he know, I’m almost always in pain. It’s pretty much my comfort zone.
Thats so real babe
Not now. Do not get dizzy now.
2nd Read - that's so real queen
little shocks blossom along my skin as I give form to the energy,
2nd Read - early manifestations of first signet ???
“Don’t be a dick,” I whisper. “You haven’t even seen me start to be a dick.”
Still obsessed
“You never considered that it was you I couldn’t stay away from?”
Throwing up
“Do you boys just want to whip it out and measure? It would be faster.”
“Mira!” I scream, clawing at Xaden’s arms, but he’s already half carrying me down the stairs with an arm clamped around my waist as if I weigh less than the sword on his back. “I love you!” I call up the turret, but there’s no way of knowing if she heard me.
Im gonna throw up but not in a hot way
“When exactly did you decide not to ruin me?” “Maybe it was when I saw Oren holding a knife to your throat,” he says. “Or maybe it was when I realized the bruises on your neck were fingerprints and wanted to kill them all over again just so I could do it slowly. Maybe it was the first time I recklessly kissed you or when I realized I’m fucked because I can’t stop thinking about doing more than just kissing you.”
Throwing up in a hot way again
“I decide what’s allowed and what’s not,” Tairn growls, lowering his head to my level and blasting me with a chuff of steam. “There is no rule that says a dragon cannot modify their seat to serve their rider. You have worked just as hard—if not harder—than every rider in this quadrant. Just because your body is built differently than the others doesn’t mean you don’t deserve to keep your seat. It takes more than a few strips of leather and a pommel to define a rider.”
Crying and sobbing
“Good.” Xaden nods once and turns toward me. “Bet it would be even more awkward if I kissed you now, huh?”
I am the sky and the power of every storm that has ever been. I am infinite. A scream rips from my throat just as lightning splits the sky with a terrifying crack of thunder. The bluish streak of silver death slams into the tower, and sparks flare as it explodes in a blast of stone. Tairn banks to avoid the blast, and I pivot in the saddle. Jack falls down the mountainside in an avalanche of rock that I know he can’t survive. From the way Baide cries beneath us, she knows it, too. My hand trembles as I sheathe the clean dagger at my ribs. The only blood to be found is on the rocks below,
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SLAYYYYY
“Kaori can bring his imagination to life, and Sawyer can bend metal. Mira can extend the wards. Everyone has a signet that isn’t just useful for battle. They’re tools for good in the world. And what the hell am I, Xaden? I’m a fucking weapon.”
Bitch you can wield lighting why would you complain about that
Dress uniforms only.” She lifts her brows at Ridoc. He shrugs. “What else would I be wearing?” “One never knows what you’ll come up with,” Devera says, dismissing us.
no reason i just love ridoc
“You can go. You should go. This is…” I shake my head. “I go where you go.” His hand tightens over mine.
2nd Read - I'm gonna throw up
“Yeah, well, I’m his…” I open my mouth and shut it a few times because…fuck if I know what I am to him. But the longing that holds my heart hostage, this driving need to be at his side because I know he’s suffering, no matter if it means throwing myself headfirst into uncertainty…I can’t deny what he is to me. I kick off the leather slippers of my dress uniform—they’re more of a hazard than anything, and in this wind? Well, we’ll see how it goes. “I’m just…his.”
Screaming
“I don’t deserve you.” His arm curls around my hips and he tugs me closer. “But I’m going to keep you all the same.”
STOP
“Which one are you calling out for?” he asks against my flesh. “Because it’s just you and me in this room, Vi, and I don’t share.”
2nd Read - AAHHHHHHH
I gave him everything, and he never truly let me in.
Girl he gave you the most logical reason for not telling you stop moaping
I don’t need to ask. Liam is gone.
BITCH WHAT THE FUCK IM SOBBING NO
“We have to get her to him. We ride.”
BRENNAN ???
I keep my shields up, trying to respect her privacy as I walk to her side, but gods, I need to know what she’s thinking.
2nd Read - how did I miss this
A fresh stab of sorrow pierces my ribs. Heartbeats pass in silence as I try to find the right words, but there aren’t any, so I take from my pocket the palm-size, freshly finished carving of Andarna Liam had been working on.
SOBBING AGAIN
Brennan just grins and opens his arms. “Welcome to the revolution, Violet.”
I CALLED IT !!!!!
