Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3)
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They happen to be two of the most powerful riders on the Continent, so in that way, his alliance with her is perhaps wiser. The two of them could break and reshape the Continent if they chose to.
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LOVE CAT FOR THIS
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“It’s only three years,” Talia begs, panic rising in her eyes. “And then you’d be back together.
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Shut ur ho ass up
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I’m not sure I want you for an ally. You have no army and you’re stingy with the very thing that should be free to all—knowledge.”
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FACTS FACTS FACTS
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“This tastes just like home,” Garrick says, lifting another bite to his mouth.
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IM SCREAMING
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Not Ridoc. Not anyone, but especially not Ridoc.
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THIS IS SO REAL PLEASE
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“Asshole!” Ridoc shouts, and I pivot to see him plow his fist into the cook’s face. “I have four uniforms, but only one fucking flight jacket, and I”—punch—“hate”—punch—“sewing!”
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IM ACTUALLY LAUGHING SO HARD, I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER BURST OUT LAUGHING SO MUCH FROM SOMETHING IN A BOOK OMGGG
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“Pretty sure she’s spent the last week or so cataloging every one of my missteps, given how quickly she listed them.”
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“Happy to win the fight again later.” I
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ME THOUGH
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Dain’s card reveals a hand, and when he offers his to the woman who walks over to him, she slaps him across the face so hard his head turns in our direction.
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HAHAHAHAHA
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“Do not laugh,” I warn Xaden, fighting off another tide of dizziness.
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“Broken compass,” I tell Xaden as I fall back into line. “You can put it in my box of nothingness,” he replies. “We’ll keep them on the bedside table.”
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hahahhaha
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Trager staggers backward. Time slows to a crawl as he turns toward us with three fumbling footsteps. His gaze lurches for Cat, and then he falls to his knees and sways. An arrow protrudes from his heart.
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NO
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He’s dead before Ridoc and I can catch him.
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broooo :(
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toward Silaraine. She stumbles forward with her neck arched, her silver feathers shining in the sun. Three steps. Four. Five.
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Ugh this is so sad
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“The best leaders are the ones who never want the job.
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“There is no cure for me.” He presses a kiss to my forehead. “That’s why you have to become better than me. There’s only you.”
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It could be a trick of the moonlight, but I’m pretty sure the sand is black. Power ripples through me and energy crackles along my skin with about half the intensity that it does in Navarre. We’ve found magic. And more than there was on Zehyllna, too.
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“Give me that.” To my surprise, Mira takes the kitten, not the map, cradling it against her chest with one hand. “Her name is Broccoli, not that,” he mutters.
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DEAD
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“Why not Carrots?” Mira asks, scratching under the kitten’s chin. “She’s orange.” “Just to frustrate you, Sorrengail,” Drake answers, glancing up from the map.
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I think theyre in love
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“We are at the southern tip of an island chain of volcanic formations,” he answers from high above us. “It does not match anything on the map, though there is another mass of land an hour’s flight due west with what appears to be sizable cliffs.”
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“Just you and me today, honey bear.” Garrick swings his arm over Xaden’s shoulder. “Don’t worry,” he leans in and whispers. “I’ll take good care of you.” He flashes a dimple.
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LmAO Xaden is like PLEASE DONT DO THIS
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Ridoc glances between us. “I’m going…somewhere else.” He walks off toward the dying fire.
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lmaoooooo
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I shake my head. “So you don’t. The last time you did, it was because of me. I’m a trigger.” He flinches. “You’re not a trigger. You’re the only thing I can’t fathom losing.
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She's DEF a trigger
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“I bought enough itching powder to fill a bucket, then dropped it between his scales on the back of his neck right after flight maneuvers a few weeks ago. He had to submerge his entire body in the river to avoid everyone in the Vale knowing I’d gotten the best of him.”
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IM SCREAMING WHY ARE THEY PERFECT FOR EACH OTHER
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“I am busy with curmudgeonly things.”
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The sand ten feet in front of me moves, forming a series of furrows like the beach is splitting. Like talons are flexing.
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OMG THEY FOUND THEM
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The one diagonally to my left lifts their head. “She is the criterion.”
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“And Violet channeled my power—” Two of them inhale sharply, and my stomach full-on knots.
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Im dead with this story time montage
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His mouth tightens. “She can’t get to you here.” “And yet she did.” I
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Yeah because she handed it to Aetos
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“While you were out doing gods know what on the isles for three weeks,” Aetos says, his eyes hardening, “Suniva fell to dark wielders.”
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I’m sorry are yall completely useless without like 7 people? TF you love to pull the Cadet card to stop them from deciding things yet you cant fight without them.
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They go over the trip’s details so many times, for so many hours, that I start to worry if they’re looking for holes in our stories or if they suspect we had more than rare texts to guide us.
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Uhh ya
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I’ve seen things he never will, touched pieces of history he didn’t know existed. Just like my father.
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“I’ll allow you to help her this time,” the Sage promises, pushing his robes up the length of his tanned arms.
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Her dreams are real
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“You will,” Tairn decrees. “It just won’t look like that.”
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Lmaooo
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“Maybe I fell for the wrong—” “It would be a shame to kill my last living relative.”
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“Wait for the last second so you don’t embarrass us.”
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“I trust you can find your seat,” he says with a note of pride, leveling out as we fly above the field.
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I really really love tairn
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You do some of your best work on that throne.
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listen
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“It would take a great deal more than a change of posture to dishonor me,” he replies.
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“But you never had to lower yourself before me, did you? Not for Naolin, or—” “We do not speak of the one who came before.” Agonizing pain floods the bond,
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Me and Sachi think Naolin is a venin
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“Sawyer! Look at you!” Ridoc runs forward, his arms up in victory.
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IM GONNA CRY
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“I had a bad dream, too.” I shrug. “Must be the storm.”
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Might be onto something there Queen
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“What else?” His heart starts to pound beneath my fingers.
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“When he dropped me, I had this second where I thought about channeling from the earth, and when I looked down…” My gaze slides to his relic. “I had a relic on my left wrist, right where yours all start. And my hand didn’t look like mine. Now that I’m thinking about it, it looked like…yours.
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“It’s my hand,” he repeats. “You were in my dream.”
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OH SHIT
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“There is if you’re a dream-walker.” He nods thoughtfully, and my heart pounds as I guess what he’s about to say. “It must be your second signet—the
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MY BITCH SACHI WAS SO ON POINT W THIS
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“You’re not worried about losing it?” “That used to be my worst nightmare, actually,” she says, staring down at the miniature. “Until I lived through losing them.”
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“It’s how you save Tyrrendor.” Aaric’s voice drops to a whisper.
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BRO KNOWS SOMETHING
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“Heretic! You are not welcome here,” she shouts, her voice breaking with a rasp.
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Theophanie was a priestess of Dunne. Her silver hair matches the attendants’ on Unnbriel…matches mine—
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