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Who knows what weather we’ll encounter on the search for my kind?”
Andarna’s fire theory.
Your wings won’t hold the weight of this ice,’” Andarna blatantly mocks him. “And yet yours miraculously carry the burden of your ego.”
“It was clearly an accident!” One that would usually be avoided by dragons communicating.
“It was negligent, and a twenty-two-year-old dragon should know better than to close himself off from his riot simply because he’s arguing with his rider,”
“He wants to go home—back to Aretia. Says we can launch the search for the seventh breed from there.”
“The four of you are a fucking nuisance. It’s going to be a miracle if we pull this off without getting ourselves executed.”
“Of course not.” I shove my gloves into my pocket. “He’s still pissed at me for ‘burdening you’ with the knowledge.”
including Caroline Ashton, which means the truth-sayers cleared her.
“I can’t wait for him to discover you’re leading your own rebellion.”
The rarest of signets—those that rise once in a generation or century—have manifested concurrently with an equal twice in our records,
The scribe’s hood falls back, revealing red-rimmed eyes with spiderwebbed veins at his temples.
“A scribe would have run toward the Archives.”
Her long silver braid swings free of her hood as her attention whips in our direction, and her eerie red gaze jumps to mine and widens slightly under a faded tattoo on her forehead.
I blink against the sudden breeze that rustles a loosened strand of my braid, then stare at the empty space she’d occupied. At least I think she had.
“Not the silver hair!”
“We need her!”
From the look of the stones he’s drained within the cell, he’ll be dead within the week.”
“You wielded your signet today. Behind the wards.” He nods, dropping his hand from mine and fully wrapping his arms around me. “I channeled from Sgaeyl.”
“She’s still not speaking to me.
“I could reach the rank of Maven, lead armies of dark wielders against everyone we care for, and watch every vein in my body turn red as I channel all the power in the Continent, and I would still love you. What I did doesn’t change that. I’m not sure anything can.”
“With my shields up, I didn’t know you were in the interrogation chamber until I was halfway down the stairs.”
“I sensed them,” he finally answers. “The same way they sense me.”
“That’s how I know I’ve changed, how Garrick and I have managed to slay more than a dozen of them this week. I can feel them calling to me, just like I can feel the source pulsing beneath my feet with its incomparable power…because I’m one of them.”
And if her first two liaisons are any indication of what we might expect… Gods help her, my love, I’m afraid our daughter has atrocious taste in men.
I grasp for the shimmering onyx that connects our minds and pour my pure, acute need into it as my breath comes
Holding the bond with a viselike grip, I recall the armoire cracking against my back, the sublime feel of him pounding into me, hard and so damned deep, both of us lost in the other, breathing the same heated air, living for nothing but the peak of the next thrust. The power coiled within me starts to burn, flushing my skin and threatening to incinerate everything I am
“And just so you know, that memory of yours was really fucking hot.
My brow knits. “I’m not quite sure how I even did it. Is the thought sharing an inntinnsic thing? Or a bond thing? It’s happened more than once with us.”
“The first time, I was sitting in tactics and couldn’t get you out of my damned head. Then you reached out, struggling to wield when you’d all but set the whole campus on fire the night before,
Melgren’s mind that he could wipe the slate clean. There’s a lot of chaos in these halls and almost no one of rank to notice.” Be careful.
I’m supposed to speak for Aretia, according to your brother.
“The Assembly runs Aretia. I just own the house,
The only incentives are weapons and keeping the fliers safe.” “Both of which can be achieved by an alliance with only Aretia,”
Nullifying a rune is mind-blowing. Figuring out how to do it without affecting the others? Incredible.
“They should worry more about what will happen when we do find them,” Tairn growls. “If a den of our kind chose to leave—chose to hide—they will not welcome our
“That venin by Jack’s cell had silver hair,”
The only thing more dangerous than a quadrant full of arrogant killing machines is a leaderless quadrant,
“The Dark One cannot unite what he broke.”
and I suddenly remember exactly who he is. “Any chance you have an affinity for public speaking?”
“It certainly runs in your family.”
“I’ll make you a deal, wingleader. Defeat me, and your fliers live to see the morning.
“Dain isn’t the strongest,” Andarna points out.
“You see, Dain’s too honorable to wield in a challenge, but you’ll find that my sense of morality has learned to…waver.”
The last time a shadow and lightning wielder fought side by side, they managed to drive the venin back into the Barrens for a few hundred years. We’ll figure out how to do it again.” I fumble the conduit and nearly drop it. Xaden and I are the first of our signets to live simultaneously since the Great War?
“Let me guess. Halden complicated negotiations?” I fucking blanch.
Aaric shoots me a knowing look, which I return with a quick glare.
Mira studies Xaden and me intently, but she keeps quiet.
“Admirable attempt, but I’m only here for my squad. I’ll dismantle the family business before I rejoin it,” Aaric quips.
The Senarium has agreed that all those who flew for Aretia will be welcomed back with a full pardon for their treason and sedition within the now-negotiated accord with Aretia”—he
