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Many dragons suffered the loss of their bonded riders in the name of self-preservation.
Hmm *insert thinking emoji* sounds kinda entitled like they’re giving you power, they don’t have to do that but they do
“Time to play, Violet.” Theophanie hurls the dagger—at Jack.
Gonna assume it’s to feed him but like doesn’t it still harm him if it stabs through him?
alloy-hilted dagger drawn,
I’m kinda confused about the alloy thing bc didn’t Xaden feed on the alloy conduit in Violets pocket at Krovola or wherever it was. (Where that Joffrey ahh king was)
when the closest wyvern launches and plucks Theophanie from the ground as it flies overhead.
Uhhh why?!
force a smile so she doesn’t meet Malek in fear.
Fam u prob look like a sociopath smiling at her while she’s bleeding out of her jugular
Is it even possible? Brennan’s powerful, but I can’t think of a single rider who’s been saved on the battlefield with an injury this extensive.
Hi um ya SLOANE WOULDVE BEEN HELPFUL IN THIS SITUATION. I thought it was weird that she was hardly involved in this book at all
see Garrick pull the venin’s dagger from the door of the Rybestad chest as Bodhi forces the other one shut.
Oh so they still have Jack?! wtf was that all about then
“Come on, come on,” Brennan mutters, his brow furrowed in concentration just like Dad’s used to, but he’s swaying slightly and losing color in his face. It has to work. It just has to.
This has me thinking, how did Naolin die exactly? Btw I think he actually became venin but Brennon was the one who was thought to be dead and Naolin too? How did they think that happened? He could siphon couldn’t he? Oh maybe he siphoned from the earth to save Brennen?! Idk I just realized don’t actually know what happened
as two reds approach from the south at tremendous speed. Wait. Why are they flying away from the city?
Reds? Red dragons? Orrrr what
I strain to identify the dragons. Thoirt? The tear pattern in her right wing is unmistakable, but that would mean… Oh gods, Sloane is here.
OH SHIT IS THIS WHAT AARIC DID HE SAW THIS HAPPENING AND WENT TO GO GET SLOANE
“Get the chest out of here,” Xaden shouts to Garrick. “If she wanted him dead, he obviously knows things they don’t want us to.”
Damn why didn’t I clock that
“Not enough for what he just saw,” Xaden answers, his shadows blocking what looks to be the tip of a wyvern’s tail from hitting me.
I’m sorry like what else does he need to do to gain trust like ???
“She’s under my command, and Cath alerted me the second they crossed the wards against orders.”
It’s hilarious that Cath is also a rules bitch
She races our way, reaching into her flight jacket and retrieving a cylindrical parcel the length of her hand. “Aaric told me you’d need this—” She stumbles as she catches sight of Mira.
Hmmm I think It was to get Sloane here without telling her for what?!
“One hand on my wrist,” Dain says gently, like he’s talking to a skittish horse. She stares at the gray handprint that scars his forearm. “I don’t want to do that. Become that.”
Gray handprint?
“You can hate me later, but trust me now or she dies.”
Come on Sloane you can give back to the sorrengail fam and ease your guilt
Sloane wraps her fingers around Dain’s wrist. Her eyes flare, and she swallows. “Someone like you shouldn’t have this much power.” “Good thing for Mira I do. Put the other hand anywhere his skin is exposed,”
????
“Do not blame yourself for wounds you do not inflict,”
Facts
“Pull from the excess you feel in me, and push to the deficit in him. You’re not a weapon of destruction. You’re not venin. You’re the artery power chooses to flow through. You’re life.”
THIS WAS SO SWEET I CRY
Dain flinches. “I’m going to hurt you.” “Gods, don’t I know it.” He nods. “But you’re not going to kill me, no matter how badly you want to. Now do it.”
OH SHIT THEYRE ALREADY A THING??!
then pours the water over Mira’s neck. A thick, angry pink scar straddles her throat.
THATS SO BADASS THO
Three. Brennan is a fucking miracle worker.
Yes but it was kinda Sloane who allowed it to happen bruv
comes flying overhead but is yanked back by a rope of shadow. Pretty sure it was a talon.
It’s really weird she left and comes back as soon as they fix Mira?!
Dain rises to stand and offers his hand to Sloane. “Fuck off, Aetos.”
LMAO
“Don’t thank me. Just tell me later how the fuck Garrick and Chradh disappeared into thin air.”
NOT HIM THINKING ABOUT THAT THE WHOLE TIME HAHAHAHAH
It’s addressed to Aaric and bears the unbroken seal of Dunne.
Why in all that’s holy would he send Sloane into a war zone to give me his own mail? I’m going to throttle him…as soon as I figure out what the fuck he’s currently doing.
Fokkin open it
I slip Aaric’s package into my flight jacket pocket
BRO IF IT WAS THAT URGENT?!? FUCKING OPEN IT TF UR KINDA DUMB ASF SOMETIMES VI
There’s no mark at the back of his neck like he carries on his palm. There hadn’t been one on Dain’s wrist, either.
I don’t understand this at all what marks?? And when did we even know about these marks before this scene?!
“Stay with her, but remember your promise.”
“I don’t want your fucking province.” “Noted.” Xaden clasps Bodhi’s shoulder,
PROMISE?? you know what the problem is? This series should NOT be in first person there’s too many characters and too many mysteries things to remember
“Now that the Duke of Angst is gone,” Bodhi says,
“Can Garrick get Teine up the cliffs?” I ask. “Under normal circumstances? Yes.” Bodhi winces.
Ohhhh he winnows
“You think this will work?” “Has to. Magic requires balance, right?” “It’s the oldest rule there is.” Theophanie
This is and A and B conversation, C ur way out of it
I reach for Tairn’s power, but barely a trickle answers the call. Shit. Tairn’s out of range.
It’s not going to be a quick jaunt to haul Teine the many miles to the wards and up ten thousand feet, either.
UH YEAH TF U THINK?! You needed ur signet desperately and you just send him away when u knew she was returning
Bodhi and I can keep ourselves alive.
What’s bodhis signet I forgot
She heard us from twenty feet away. “Pity you had to kill them.” She clucks her tongue. “They take forever to generate. Are you ready to tip the balance, Violet?”
“I’m ready to kill you.” I reach for a dagger out of reflex and throw so hard my shoulder pops but thankfully doesn’t subluxate.
That was dumb asf Violet
Was this the path the priestess foresaw for me? Not their mentorship but Theophanie’s?
“Odd choice of companion, seeing that you reek of his kin.”
BRO CHILL WID ALL THAT HAHAHAHA , my girl just got came in right before this im dead
Her smile cracks another line in her lips.
THIS CRUSTY AHH HO. Get this girl some aquaphor. PS ME IN THE WINTER
“Berwyn?” I guess. “As if I would answer to that fool?
As long as Bodhi counters her signet, we can end her before Tairn even gets back.
Oh is Bodhi like Dazai from BSD
a way I’ve only ever felt around one other person. Theophanie’s smile sharpens. Gravity shifts, and my perception of everything changes.
Idk why I just feel like she’s their first born and she’s actually VI’s sister or maybe her dad’s sister? But she old right hmmm
“She was the answer to me,” Theophanie hisses, and the clouds start to swirl.
Hmmmm this is peculiar
“My signet is always the balance,” Bodhi argues, lifting his hand as the wind rises to a constant roar at our backs. “I can stop her!” “You can’t!”
Have y’all not tested this on xaden already?!
Her lips crack as she screams,
Me in the winter again with my ezcema
“Your mother knew at your age that she was no match for me. That’s why she hid behind those wards. Perhaps you should have followed her example.”
Bro is this her aunt or something I stg
be with them. I look away and find Theophanie staring at me, her eerie red eyes so close she consumes my vision.
Jump scare lmao
