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“You’re right. I can’t be everywhere.” Theophanie’s eyes widen as I arch my neck against the blade. “I don’t have to be.”
Tara, on the other hand, would tell me to make my own luck.
Why do we never see Tara?
No matter how much Violet means to me, she’s one life. We’re guarding thousands who are fleeing as my family had, and we owe them the same protection.
I mean this is what I was thinking about Mira too like yeah she’s your sister but her over thousands of people was crazy
“Second-guessing your choices makes me do the same regarding Threshing,” Feirge lectures, climbing in altitude as we approach the steep walls of the valley.
We found the female Tairn
as Ridoc claps the pommel with one hand and extends the other toward gray scales. Is he trying to get himself crushed? He can’t be seriously—
HELL YA RIDIOC SHOW THEM HOW AMAZING U ARE
I slam my forehead straight into her nose. Bone crunches as her head snaps back, her body rolling with
BADDIE
clutching her nose. “That’s never going to straighten out!”
Lmaoooo
“Another will come along,” she warns. “You are not special.”
Babes is soooo jealous
“Which meant a lot more when you had your irid.”
Whyyy
“Lesson one. To survive in our world, you must protect the magic that sustains you. Do you know how to keep from being drained by this method?” She splays her palm on the ground, and the earth slowly desiccates. Grass turns gray and crumbles.
“It’s simple, actually. Occupying ground that has already had its magic repurposed creates a barrier.”
Thanks for the tip?! Lmao dumbass
“Sgaeyl?” “You are an inconvenience for which there is no adequate measurement,”
Brooooo
“I can’t see that—” My vision shifts just like it did after Threshing, and the battlefield comes into startling clarity. But it’s not Andarna’s eyes I’m looking through; it’s Tairn’s. “Far.”
leaving behind a line of a dozen—no, eleven—venin-carrying wyvern on the ground behind them. I can’t make out the dark wielders’ features, but it isn’t hard to spot Theophanie’s silver hair or the enormous wyvern she rides.
Vi needs to learn how to do one of those multi vein lightning bolts but be able to be precise with where every vein hits so she can kill multiples at once
Wait…Cuir? “Isn’t Bodhi supposed to be—” “We all make our own decisions.” Xaden’s going to be pissed.
let go as lightning cleaves the sky in too many columns to count. “Ten bolts,” Tairn announces with a swell of pride as thunder reverberates through my body and wyvern fall. “Seven struck.”
Oh I guess she can
She burns out so fast
I reach through the bond, only to be met with a wall of black ice.
God Xaden please be good
Fuck you. My daughter and I will meet Malek with clean consciences. Will you and your daughters be able to say the same when they come for you? —The last words of Tracila Cardulo (redacted)
Who?
“Tell Cruth to tell Quinn that I’m perfectly fine.”
I love that they use the dragons as walkie talkies lmao
“Eighteen!” she declares, flaring her wings to pull out of the dive and point us back to the northern wall. “Seventeen if we’re going by your measurement, since I wounded it first.”
Another perfect pair lmao
“Your death would annoy me.” Glane slows
sprint toward the back of the venin in crimson. There’s forty feet between us.
Oh god
The dark wielder’s expression of shock remains permanent as he desiccates a few feet away and falls off the wall.
WE LIVE TEAM WORK
“And we’re going to talk about whatever the fuck that just was later,”
Lmao Dains priorities kill me
His eyes light up, then glass over as he turns gray and shrivels, collapsing at Quinn’s feet with two daggers in his chest.
Such a baddie
No. The venin’s blade is lodged between her ribs in the vicinity of her heart.
Noooo
“I’m sorry,” she says more gently than I’ve ever heard, ever wanted to hear. “There’s no helping me,” Quinn whispers. “That’s not true.” I shake my head, and my vision blurs.
Come on!!! If we can get Mira’s slit throat fixed we can deal with a fking dagger in the chest
“You tell her. You’re going to graduate in a couple of months, and then you’ll marry her in that pretty black dress you picked out, and you’re going to be happy.”
This is so sad :(
“And you should tell him, Gen. Tell him, and you find some happy.”
:’(
“You’re mine, and I love you, too.” Her smile slips and another tear falls. “I’m scared. I don’t want to be scared.”
THIS MADE ME SO SAD
nod. “They’ll know you and they’ll love you. It’s impossible not to love you.”
My heart
“We made it a good one.” She falls limp, and when I lift my shaking fingers to her throat, there’s no pulse. She’s gone.
FUCK WHY DID U DO THAT REBECCA?! Haven’t they suffered enough losses?!?!
Well, then it might be a short friendship, but we’ll make it a good one.
God dammmit
watching as the stones begin to pale, then lose their color one by one, each loss higher than the last.
Wait what?! A venin?
and color disappears from the stones in the bend beneath us so gradually that I can’t help but wonder if Quinn simply took the color with her.
Oh god is imogen gonna die now from a venin
There’s half a dozen of them with their hands on the city walls, draining the life out of the stone. It’s time to go.”
“I’m not leaving her!” “I’m not leaving you!” He leans in and slides his hand behind my neck. “I’m not leaving you, Imogen,” he repeats, softer this time.
Is Garrett the one she has a crush on? I always thought it was Bodhi ngl but if it’s Garrett it def seems like he likes her too
gift from one servant of Dunne to another. I must warn you—only those touched by the gods should wield their wrath. I will pray to Her that she need not use it to avoid reacquainting herself with the other who curries her favor. Her path is still not set.
—Recovered Correspondence of High Priestess Deservee to His Royal Highness, Cadet Aaric Graycastle, Prince Camlaen of Navarre
OH IS THIS THE LETTER VI WAS SUPPOSED TO READ?
For when you lose yours. Strike in the dark, Violet. What the fuck?
OH YA HE CAN SEE THE FUTURE
How would Aaric know I’d lose my dagger, let alone think that some piece of rock could replace—
“Tell me, do you miss Unnbriel?” Her eyes flare, and she startles.
“Do you?” she counters. “Or are you immune, having only been touched, but not dedicated?” She charges forward. “Do you know the pain of never being allowed to return,
knowing that it would sever the very thing that’s kept me untouchable all these years?”
WAIT WAIT WAIT WHAT DOES SHE MEAN BY THIS
Putrid fear consumes the bond, followed by another roar that nearly buckles my knees.
Fuckkk nooo
Draithus is enveloped in darkness, and the shrieking cries of wyvern soon follow, racing across the field and echoing off the rock above.
No no no no
the field in the fury of an onyx storm and sweeping toward us at a speed that squeezes the hope from my chest, then outright shatters my heart. The pain hits like a physical blow to the center of my chest.
WHY xaden WHY
“I love you,” I whisper down the bond, and the ice cracks, but it’s not enough to halt the approaching wave of darkness.
“Use the darkness!” Tairn orders. My heart stutters. Use the very thing that’s taking Xaden from me?
I BEG YOUR PARDON?!
