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“It’s my hand,” he repeats. “You were in my dream.”
I KNEW IT
“No. They’re my dreams.” He rubs the skin beneath his lower lip. “I’ve had them at least once a week since Resson, and more frequently since Basgiath, but I almost never realize they’re nightmares when I’m in them. When I do, I wake up feeling like someone was there with me, watching.” He looks over at me and pauses his steps. “Like tonight.”
THIS IS HER SECOND SIGNET
“Because you are.” Xaden lifts his brows. “And he wants me to deliver you.”
Oh my god i have a bad feeling .
“There is if you’re a dream-walker.”
OHHHHHHHHH MYLANTA
“It’s absolutely more dangerous than lightning. It’s a form of inntinnsic,” he ends on a whisper.
“You don’t read them. You walk straight into them when unconscious.”
Omg omg omg
“Violet, they’ll kill you if they find out. It won’t matter that you’re the best weapon they have against the venin—against
IM FREAKING OUT THIS CANT BE GOOD GUYS
“I love you more than this city. Do not die defending it.”
“It’s how you save Tyrrendor.” Aaric’s voice drops to a whisper.
WHAT
But how can it be too much when I am the very thing I wield?
“Of course not.” The priestess scoffs, and the wind picks up. “She sent you.”
WHAT WHAT WHAT
The faded forehead tattoo. Theophanie was a priestess of Dunne. Her silver hair matches the attendants’ on Unnbriel…matches mine—
Theophanie’s gaze rises to the sky behind me, and she backs away, her eyes widening. “Leave them and go!” she shouts to the approaching dark wielders and breaks into a run toward them. “Now!”
WHAT DID SHE SEE
“It seemed necessary to fire your wardstone,” Leothan says. My stomach bottoms out. The irids have come.
LETS FUCKING GOOO
I’m not sure I’ll ever forgive him for what he’s done to her.
It’s too surreal, too easy.
Shits ab to hit the fan
“There is nothing wrong with her. We can never thank you enough for what you’ve done tonight in firing our wards, but if you’ve only come to point out all the ways you believe her to be lacking, you’ll find Feirge’s greeting warmer than mine.”
Big mama v
It’s oddly similar to the effects of the serum they dosed us with during RSC.
developed my signet out of sheer need for her—and yet it feels like we’re hurtling toward some kind of precipice.
“I love you and I want you to feel complete,” I tell her, and she slowly meets my gaze. “I want you happy and safe and thriving. I want you to live.” My voice breaks. “Even if it’s not with me.”
Im gonna sob
I throw myself at the wall where our bond should be. But it’s gone. A breath later, so is she. All that’s left is a gust of wind as her scales blend into the sky.
REBECCA WHY
“She left us. She left us. She left us.” It’s all I can think. “We remain,” Tairn orders, as if I have a choice not to.
My tairn
“I’m so sorry.” Sympathy fills Mira’s expression. “But not sorry enough to lose you to your grief. You just have to start by getting up.” She wrinkles her nose. “Then you can graduate to bathing.”
Love her for actually being a big sis
“How did you replace the power you lost?” Mira asks quickly.
?????
“Can I help you?” I nod. He strips me out of my clothes, and I get into the tub. Warm water rushes over me as I lean back, and I start pulling apart the strands of my braid. Kneeling beside me, he lathers soap on a small cloth and begins to wash me, starting at my feet.
Hes bathing her im sobbing
“May I wash your hair?”
I WANT HIM BAD
all I have are a few of Mom’s journals, and there are months missing, Brennan.”
Sus
“The months are missing in the middle of the book,” she counters. “And they’re from the summer Mom and Dad left us with Grandma Niara. Mom purposely didn’t write anything.”
Violet was too little to stay. When they returned, Grandma stopped speaking to them.”
It is good we did not complete your dedication. The Unnbrish high priestess’s words ring through my head, as does the memory of her silver hair, just like Theophanie’s, just like mine.
The priestess started the process, then told Mom and Dad that they only accepted children whose futures are certain, and Violet still had paths to choose from—”
PATHS?
“The priestess spoke all cryptically but basically said if Violet chose her future poorly, she could still earn their mentorship, but she’d turn—”
TURN WHAT TURN WHAT TURN WHATTT
“Dad thought you were perfect, and he said that parents used to dedicate their infants to a particular deity’s service when they thought the touch of a god would help that child—” He quickly shuts his mouth.
“Mom didn’t take me.” My eyes sting at the unexpected betrayal. “Dad did.”
“She said the heart that beat for you—or within you—would do the wrong thing for the right reason, reach for unspeakable power, and turn dark.”
but the high priestess of Dunne’s temple has written to say that Dunne holds you and Rhiannon in her regard, and that she is in my debt and owes me whatever favor I see fit.”
I won’t give up a single day I have with you. Not without a fight.”
“It’s simple, dream-walker. You come or she dies.” She who
SHE WHO
Theophanie has Mira.
Oh fucking hell
“She stands at my side.” Xaden’s voice drops into that lethally calm wingleader tone, and he places his warm hand over mine. “Remember that.”
EEEEEE
“That’s why we’ll fail. Because you will choose everyone over yourself, and he will choose you over everyone.”
“If she wanted him dead, he obviously knows things they don’t want us to.”
“Eyes here,” Dain says, and Sloane looks his way.
Oh he talks u thru it
“I’m going to hurt you.” “Gods, don’t I know it.” He nods. “But you’re not going to kill me, no matter how badly you want to. Now do it.”
Y was this hot
then grab the package Sloane left behind, too. It’s addressed to Aaric and bears the unbroken seal of Dunne.
There’s no mark at the back of his neck like he carries on his palm. There hadn’t been one on Dain’s wrist, either.
Huh???
“Come back to me,” I demand as he moves away. “Only ever you.”
“But once a century or so we get a chance to skew the scales in our favor, and I will prove myself to him this time.”
She hadn’t controlled the lightning during their assault on Suniva. She’d controlled the very thing causing it.
HER?!
“She’s their answer to my mother.”
