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There’s no mistaking the gray handprint marking the side of his neck. Venin.
Don’t recall this being an indicator AT ALL??
“You do not have a conduit,” Tairn reminds me. Which means I can’t pinpoint my lightning strikes, especially not indoors.
Her long silver braid swings free of her hood as her attention whips in our direction, and her eerie red gaze jumps to mine
“Not the silver hair!” the dark wielder with the sword bellows, and I scramble to my feet, slipping on the blood-covered stone. “We need her!”
I beg ur pardon, that doesn’t sound ideal
“Ah, the lightning wielder. You’re a long way from the sky, and we both know you can’t kill me with that knife,” he taunts,
Why was she able to kill the other ones but not him??
A band of darkness wraps around my hips and yanks me backward, then brushes my cheek gently, steadying my galloping heartbeat and quieting my power.
Hotttt
From the look of the stones he’s drained within the cell, he’ll be dead within the week.”
Bro already died once before so i wouldn’t count on him not persevering lmao
“Because you were on one side of the room,” Garrick says, “but your blade was on the other.” “A problem I was in the middle of solving.” Ridoc shrugs,
Lmaoooo
“Don’t act like I’m the reason you need to be supervised,” Garrick fires back.
Honestly tho Xaden is such a moron for doing that
“Don’t be. He has every right to worry about leaving me alone with you.” He covers my hand with his own
This hurts my feelings
“You wielded your signet today. Behind the wards.”
“Don’t count on it,” Tairn warns
TAIRN PLS
Xaden lowers his chin to the top of my head. “She knows I’m not…whole. She senses it.”
Hey this harms me :)
“I sensed them,” he finally answers. “The same way they sense me.”
I can feel them calling to me, just like I can feel the source pulsing beneath my feet with its incomparable power…because
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.
Lmaooo who were her first two?!
“For someone who’s about to face the highest-ranking aristocracy in the kingdom,
Wait why
The magical barrier is doing more than protecting us from him—it’s protecting him from himself. His jaw flexes. “Even beyond the wards,”
“I’ll be right out here”—Xaden’s tone slips into menace—“deterred by these wooden doors that hang an inch off the ground.”
Lmaoooooo
Six nobles dressed in lushly embroidered tunics and gowns sit facing me at the closest end, representing each of Navarre’s six provinces.
Lewellen.
Have no clue who this is
“What did you call it?” “A task force,” Melgren supplies, sitting eerily still as he studies me. “Task force,” the duke repeats.
Sir you've never heard of a task force?! Get this guy outta here
“Which will embark on a quest to find and recruit the seventh dragon breed with an aim to increase our numbers and hopefully provide insight into killing the venin.”
Lewellen, seeing as you’ve secretly represented Aretia for years—which is a separate issue this council has yet to address—perhaps
Is he the one who had the luminary or am i wrong?
“I will take six riders—” “You will take no one,” Melgren interrupts. “You are a second-year cadet who will only be allowed to participate because we need your dragon.
Exactly you NEED her dragon, thus you need Violet who's done more in the last year than you can wrap your pea-sized brain around
“Then it’s one that won’t be met.” Melgren folds his hands in his lap. “It’s a nonnegotiable military operation, not a class field trip.”
Then too fucking bad, aye?
You have three days to hold up your end of our bargain.
“Mine,” he growls against my skin, and his hand skims the hemline of my nightdress before dragging it up my thigh.
Not me getting butterflies
“I love you so much it hurts.”
“Changed my mind.” He slides two fingers inside me. “That’s my favorite sound.” His fingers stroke deep, then curl upward as he withdraws just enough.
Ahhhhhhh
“Here on your back with me above you? Before me on your hands and knees with your ass in the air? Against the wall so I can drive harder?
IM SWEATING
“Is this far enough?” “Not sure the isle kingdoms would be far enough,” he mutters, slowing his breathing.
Lmaooo this is so funny
“Anything to do with Duke Lindell being here?”
?! WHO?!
A slow smile spreads across Garrick’s face, and a dimple pops in his left cheek. “Careful, Imogen. You sound a little jealous.” “Who the hell would be jealous of a flier?”
I thought she liked Bodhi?
her months to let him back in after she found him alive. Who knows how long she’ll need to get over losing our mother on what she considers to be Brennan’s watch.
I guess grudge-holding runs in the genetics then
“We’re good,” Brennan assures him as the foursome turns the corner and disappears. “Good to feel needed,” Bodhi mutters,
Lmao
She retrieves a conduit from her bag and hands it to me with a smile.
Btw I read an iron flame recap and I an aware of what a conduit is now
“Trissa’s a genius.”
Who?!
Mira places a gold coin over the center of the levitation rune, and it floats. Nullifying a rune is mind-blowing. Figuring out how to do it without affecting the others? Incredible.
WHAT ARE YOU SAYING
“That venin by Jack’s cell had silver hair,” I mutter, setting my dagger to an apple and peeling it in one long ribbon.
MHMM i thought so too
“Something’s happening.” A quick glance down the tables makes my skin crawl. The only riders left in the gathering hall are Aretian.
Aura Beinhaven stands centered in front of the crowd, holding one of the daggers she usually keeps strapped to her upper arms against the tan neck of a terrified first-year flier.
So why are we allowing this?!
Her expression softens, and for a second, she looks just like her older sister. “They’re never going to accept us.”
Whos her older sister again
“This goes against the Codex!” Dain elbows a Navarrian cadet from Third Wing in the head and pushes through the line. “Challenges are only issued in the presence of a combat master.”
Dain is like "WATCH OUT, NOWS MY CHANCE" hahahHH
“Article Two, Section One,” Aura shouts,
Oh Dain you either met ur match or found the love of ur life
“Not exactly, but—” “Then I trust you can handle it.”
Tairn for the love of god
“Who said we want it?” Aura drags the edge of her blade under the flier’s chin, and he winces but doesn’t move.
Who is this anyway?! Shes annoying asf
“They haven’t crossed the parapet. They haven’t climbed the Gauntlet. They won’t even accept a challenge. We do not tolerate cowards!”
Learn how to accept other cultures and rights of passages that they might have?!
“I’ll accept!” Kai shouts, the first-year flier charging through the line on the right, and every head turns as Rhi and Baylor quickly drag him back.
Lmao dead idk who this is but do i know any of them? no i guess i don't
“We don’t answer to deserters!” Aura spits blood into the snow and straightens. “You no longer speak for Fourth Wing, Aetos. You’re nothing here.”
Fuck off omg
