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I will not die today. I will save him. —Violet Sorrengail’s personal addendum
Your wings won’t hold the weight of this ice,’” Andarna blatantly mocks him. “And yet yours miraculously carry the burden of your ego.” “Go find a sheep and let the adults work.”
“Pain isn’t a competition,” I assure him. “There’s always enough to go around.”
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?
“I’m Theophanie, by the way. Seems only right that you know my name, seeing as I know everything about you, Violet Sorrengail.”
“Now tell me, which chose you first? The one who gifted you the power of the sky? Or the irid?”
You might be angry when you realize I didn’t wake you to say goodbye. But it’s only because I no longer fully trust my ability to walk away. —Recovered Correspondence of His Grace, Lieutenant Xaden Riorson, Sixteenth Duke of Tyrrendor, to Cadet Violet Sorrengail
“I won’t lose you, not even to yourself.”
“I am yours and you are mine, and there’s no law or rule in this world or the next that will change that.”
“Xaden!” He doesn’t so much as pause his ascent. “Because you’re the only one capable of killing me.”
“Let’s get three things straight, Your Highness. First, I have remarkable hearing thanks to the shadows at your very feet. Second, I don’t control Violet. Never have. Never will. But third, and most importantly—” He lowers his voice. “She really, honestly hasn’t thought about you. At least not since the second she set eyes on me.” I’m going to fucking kill him.
“I love you more than this city. Do not die defending it.”
Don’t look for me. It’s yours now.
