Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)

by Rebecca Yarros

Yanking Lynx out of the way before the doors even opened to the great hall. He knew. He’s been manifesting this entire time. “He’s a fucking precog,” I whisper

SACHI CALLED IT SO EARLYYYY

temple—a temple Theophanie can’t step inside. I don’t believe in oracles, but I do believe in signets.

revealing Theophanie’s back. She stumbles to her feet and whirls toward me, her eyes flaring wide, and she dives left, smacking into an invisible wall and falling backward. A wall that snarls.

And just like that, my stammering heartbeat stabilizes. Andarna.

BABYYY

Theophanie reaches out her hand, wonder lighting her red eyes.

OH GOD DONT LET HER TOUCH THE BABY

“Irid,” Theophanie whispers with reverence,

Hmmm what a change in vibe from her

“How?” Her eyes flare, and she topples to her knees. “Stone doesn’t kill venin.” “You were never just venin,” I reply. “Dunne is a wrathful goddess to high priestesses who turn their backs on Her.”

I release the bolt, plunging us into darkness and surrendering to the fire burning me alive. “Violet,” Andarna whispers. And then I hear nothing.

Here’s to hoping this isn’t the last page

There is a reason reigning aristocracy should never wear black.

Shut ur ho ass up

Panchek’s cowering, traitorous ass, putting himself between Sgaeyl and me… He’s a problem.

The WAY I HAD TO DOUBLE TAKE BACK TRACK BC I WAS LIKE NAH BUT WTF

Not even because he’s supposed to be dead. But because I. Can’t. Kill. Him. I could no more raise a blade to his throat than I could Violet.

I kinda think this is how he can go back to normal, he has to actually kill him. Just bc he feels like he can’t doesnt mean he actually can’t.

The bond between Berwyn and me is the kind that should never exist, and now that my Sage has another sibling he can use against me…I’m screwed.

Can Xaden be more clear wtf were literally in this mfer’s head and he’s being vague asf I fear it might be Bodhi though or garrett but I’m thinking Bodhi more

I glance past Berwyn, past Sgaeyl and the venin, to my new brother and the unconscious dragon lying in the valley beyond the canyon, guarded by seven wyvern. How could he do this?

Don’t tell me it’s fucking Bodhi?! Or is it Liam somehow!? I’ll sCREECH Garrett?! GOD DAMMIT JUST TELL ME

this after watching me stumble and fall over the last five months. How could he willingly walk the path I’ve fought like hell to leave? He’s the last person I ever would have expected to turn, and yet here we are.

“This is not what we agreed to!” Panchek shouts, stumbling backward toward his own shrieking, netted dragon.

Oh wait he’s not venin? Just a fucking traitor

“Do not lose yourself,” Sgaeyl warns,

Listen to mom

Panchek reaches for the net over his dragon. “I’m the only one who can give you access to your son.”

????? I NEED CLARITY IM FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE HERE

“I have another.” Berwyn stabs deep between the dragon’s scales, and it desiccates, green draining

AYOo chillll

Terror busts through the ice. Berwyn just killed a dragon with a dagger. How the fuck is that possible?

He turns to me and saunters toward Sgaeyl as she thrashes futilely under the net.

NO NO NO NO

He lifts the blade, and I don’t just skate over the ice. I become it. “Stop!” Sgaeyl roars, blowing back Berwyn’s robes. “Do not do this to save me!”

Noooo nooo please Xaden

Shadow drags Berwyn from Sgaeyl and knocks both him and my new brother unconscious. Shadow brings quiet.

I’m no longer on the ice—I am the ice.

XadEN NO YOU DUMBASS WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS DOING SHIT LIKE THIS

keep from being torn away, too. My shadows surge from the canyon, over the city, ending every wyvern in the air and on the ground.

I can’t fucking believe this shit

desperate hands, clawing to keep her as more of my pieces are blown away, lost to the void. She is warmth and light and air and love.

then slide over Violet with a gentleness that takes all my concentration. I love her. That is the emotion I cling to, the fire of pure power burning at the feeling’s edges, and I know if I take it any further, it will be the next and final piece to float away.

I wonder how many initiates feel the same about their Sage? At least one that I know of.

But beyond the physical impossibility of it, he has something I need.

And I’m no longer an ...

FUCKKKKK

Sgaeyl lowers her head and steam gusts down the canyon, reminding me of the moment she found me in the forest at Threshing.

:(

The red veins branching from your eyes look like her lightning.”

“Someone owes me a favor.” “He’ll never let you near her.” Her tail flicks. “Especially while she lies in a vulnerable state.”

IM CONFUSED CAN WE TALK NORMAL

“We will ask,” Sgaeyl finally says, flexing her claws in the rocky soil. “And her decision will determine our fate.”

WHAT DO U MEAN WHAT IS HAPPENING

“Official numbers are four riders, their dragons, and three elders murdered

“And we still have five riders missing—four now,” he adds, looking at me. His mouth tenses. “But after that display, we all know Riorson did this. I bet the other three are already dead.”

at six missing eggs from the hatching ground, but they’re double-checking.” Missing eggs? I reach for Tairn,

I have theories about this going to the one island but maybe I’m wrong (prob am)

“He needs a cycle of rest to recover,” Andarna clarifies. “Recover from what?” He was fine when I saw him last, which was about five minutes ago, in the woods at the edge of the field—

frfr

“What?” I lower my arms. Garrick is missing, too? Who else makes up the four riders Weilsen mentioned?

Garrick did it?! I was worried he might because he was so drained

beautiful gold ring with an emerald the size of my thumbnail sits on my hand. Oh gods, I know that stone. It matches the others from the Blade of Aretia upstairs on Xaden’s nightstand.

“This carries the seal of Dunne,” he says. “May I open it?”

“By the head priestess of Dunne’s temple.”

Don’t look for me. It’s yours now. He’s gone.

FUXK HE DID IT SO SHE WOULD GET TYRENDOR. Xaden wtfff

It’s like someone has fucked with my— No. My chest draws tight. “How long have I been missing?” “Twelve hours,” Brennan answers. “What did you do?” My head snaps toward Imogen, and a deep sense of foreboding takes root in my chest. She slowly lifts her gaze to mine. “What you asked me to.”

WHATTTT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?!?! Also I think that he married Vi to make sure Tyrrendor went to her because I also think Bodhi is venin now. Idk why tf he would do that but that would leave no heirs. But now it will go to Violet