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what in Malek’s name just frightened Theophanie so badly that she fled.
Irids?
Scales the color of night ripple into a shade that’s not quite black or purple, forming the dragon whose horns carry the same swirling pattern as Andarna’s.
I KNEW IT
Asher returned today. Gods help us if anyone finds out. I’m not sure I’ll ever forgive him for what he’s done to her.
Yeah im thinking papa might be a venin like we thought idk how tho
“I do not know how—” she starts. A shrieking whistle sounds in my head, and then only silence remains. I reach for the bond and find only a wall…then nothing.
Oh ouch my heart
Andarna whips her head toward Leothan. He launches without warning, springing high above me.
Just realized going back through that it was Leothan who did it wtf
“She left us. She left us. She left us.” It’s all I can think.
:( IM SAD
“How could she do this?” Sgaeyl snaps, fury sharpening the words to daggers.
Sgaeyl is grieving like a mother, i feel
No rider has ever survived the loss of their dragon. I can’t imagine wanting to.
Brennan reads in a chair by my bedside in the mornings while I drift in and out of sleep. My squadmates take over in the afternoon, but their voices barely cut through the fog of exhaustion.
Her depression is hurting my feelings
I sleep, but I don’t dream. Andarna is gone.
“You sent me a missive saying our sister was a breath away from catatonic, so now I’m here. What does it look like I’m doing?”
“You’ve been breathing, and that’s enough for me.”
IMAGINE A MAN DOING THIS
“Stop!” My shout brings the room to a standstill. I have to get out of this bed, if only to escape from their arguing.
me in my own household
“Dad thought you were perfect, and he said that parents used to dedicate their infants to a particular deity’s service when they thought the touch of a god would help that child—”
I’m not sure I’ll ever forgive him for what he’s done to her. Oh gods. They’d never seen dragons until our squad arrived.
“Is that why you’ve been so distant lately? Why you constantly look at me like I’m going to grow a set of horns? Because you think I’m going to turn at any second?”
“Is that why you’ve been so distant lately? Why you constantly look at me like I’m going to grow a set of horns? Because you think I’m going to turn at any second?”
“My heart beats for her,” he tells Mira without so much as flinching. “I reached for unspeakable power. I turned. I’m the dark wielder she warned your father about, not Violet.
“You kept things from me, too.” My fingernails bite into my palms. “Things about myself that I deserved to know.”
FACTS
“You taught her well.” She glares over at our brother and sheathes her blade as she walks away. “Good luck keeping her alive.” The door slams on her way out.
Mira, LOVE, this is why no one tells you anything
“At least you got to see your sister,” Cat says
We love Cat for not babying Violet
Tairn lies sunning his scales. “At some point I’ll stop looking for her, right?” “Perhaps,” Tairn answers.
TAIRN PLEASE
“Did you ever consider that they wouldn’t have been were you not there?”
DAYUM
“You need every rider you can get,” Bodhi argues. “I could be manning an outpost—”
Xaden’s logic is so dumb, if anything it should be him that sits out, which would be detrimental which proves my point.
That’s why Xaden is so peaceful, so driven here. He’s putting the pieces in place, training his replacement. He’s accepted a different future
thats fucked
“And now, Melgren warns me not to fly into battle or we’ll lose—just
did they lose though?
If Tyrrendor does not immediately restore the flow of Talladium, the consequences will be dire not only for the province but the Continent. This is not a request—it is an order from your king. —Official Correspondence of His Majesty, King Tauri the Wise, to His Grace, Lieutenant Xaden Riorson, Sixteenth Duke of Tyrrendor
I just feel like the King is being controled by the venin or he is a venin, or something because his actions seem so in favor of the other side to a degree I can’t comprehend, plus its like BUT HAVE WE SEEN THIS MFER IN A WHILE?
I’m in Xaden’s dream.
Wait how? Andarna is gone?
“It’s so nice of you to join us, lightning wielder.” He tilts his head. “Or should I call you dream-walker?”
This feels like a Harry Potter Voldemort situation where they’re actually there
“You lost something I wanted, but you will bring her,” he demands.
Bitch whatttt maybe if y'all spoke more clearly and told us tf ur bitch ass wanted and why we could negotiate. Hey what do we think it is thoooo
“It’s simple, dream-walker. You come or she dies.”
W-H-O-M
“Tairn?” I reach down the bond. “I have encountered this as many times as you have.”
LMAO
Not Andarna…Teine. Theophanie has Mira.
I was thinking andarna but okie….that’s a crazy conclusion to draw from him looking at ur dragon scale armor
“She wants Jack.”
I’ve been off on everything lmao because I was think about the fact that he has actual brothers now (they’re just half brothers) just bring her his body lmao
“That’s why we’ll fail. Because you will choose everyone over yourself, and he will choose you over everyone.”
THIS IS A GOOD ASS QUOTE/ARGUMENT
Tairn would select one in a heartbeat. Andarna would choose them all.
Why not just ask Tairn then, he is, afterall, the general of his kind.
“And if Cadet Sorrengail is abducted while securing her objective?” Shadows spread at Xaden’s feet. “Bodhi will make an excellent duke.”
WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY
Xaden, we need you to trust Violet not to get herself killed.”
Honestly like its usually violet doing the saving…give my gorl some credit
but it is actually the ability to observe and recount it that separates the librarians from the scribes.
Yea tell that the ALA that made me go to lib school to be an archivist, shouldve been a whole separate program
Gods, if we miss it, if we’re too late and she kills Mira—
A) i dont think they have her b) Mirs signet is to WARD babes would be un touchable by their magic as far as im concerned Also why cant she just imbue conduits or whatever to give to people so they have personal protection stones.
Excellent point. “Theophanie took Mira because of me. I’m the reason she’s going through this.”
SHES NOT A DAMSEL
“He was seen flying south, away from conflict.” He spits every word in disgust. What in Amari’s name could he be doing? “It’s not like Aaric to run away.”
TF
“And yet, you seem to have lost your irid. How inconvenient.”
“I thought you requested brothers? Next time be more specific about who’s invited,” I suggest.
ON GOD
“Berwyn will be disappointed.” A thin line of blood appears along the edge of her knife. “He’s on the way,” I say quickly. “Berwyn.” Xaden tenses,
Who?!
“Yes. Hence the term brother.” Theophanie glances my way.
I thought maybe they were talking about his new little half brothers lmao, they way they didn’t even CONSIDER that they meant that is crazy
They made it, but the knife still at Mira’s throat makes it hard to feel any sort of relief. “Show him to me,” Theophanie orders.
She’s gonna slice Mira’s neck like there’s no way, y’all don’t have enough leverage now
“He is emaciated and wan,” Tairn tells me. “Suspended in air as the chest intends, and he appears…sedated.
Tairn is an mvp for this
“Description is perfect, thank you.”
Literally lmao
“I said we’d let Draithus stand, not that your sister would live.” Her mouth curves in a sadistic smile. “First thing to learn about us is that we’re careful with our words. And the second?
UHH ILL TAKE THIS FROM HER VI, ACTUALLY BITCH U SAID BRING VIOLET AND XADENS BROTHER OR SHE DIES…. SO UR NOT INTENTIONAL WITH UR WORDS
She draws the blade across Mira’s neck and slits her throat.
KNEW IT
