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For those whose safe space has become their prison. You are brave. You are strong. You are warriors.
victory smelled an awful lot like blood and shit.
Tasty
the impossibly strong Blade Breakers and impossibly quick Harefeet.
the infernal Shadow Hounds,
gifts of the mind. A Weaver,
The Weaver had seen his death.
“Whatever knowledge she holds, she values it more than her own life,” he mused. Realization crystallized, and he whirled to Magnus. “This secret endangers someone she loves.”
“You will meet your end by galdur’s hand!”
As it should be
“Kill the child,” said Ivar coldly, striding toward Askaborg, “and gather the Galdra. Things will be changing in this kingdom.”
So thats how it starts
there would be no Kopa. Instead, there was Kalasgarde.
“Sometimes I think”—he shook his head—“you remind me of someone.”
He knew eisa
In that moment, Silla made herself a vow. She would never allow another to know her true name.
Noooooooooo
“I know who you are,” he heard himself say. She went stone-still. “I know why the queen is hunting you.” She tensed as though bracing for the words to come. “Your scar. I was with you when you got it, Eisa.”
“you could stand for your people. Do you not know what your existence would mean to so many?
Eisa has certainly proven herself resilient. But we shall see how she fares against the Wolf Feeders.
How could she have thought she could simply cross the courtyard when she hadn’t stepped outdoors in five long years?
Ohh shes agoraphobic
Her Sense was exposed, and yet she could hear no trace of this stranger’s thoughts.
How long would this take to reach Sunnavík—for Magnus to realize that the leader of his favorite warband had been using him to collect information for the Uppreisna?
He recognized the wolf sigil etched on their breasts. “Wolf Feeders,”
Archers
They knew his identity; he might as well give them a show.
Thats my boy
Rey also pulled from the additional reserves tattooed on his chest
What gives you the right to dispense justice as you see fit?” “I do not decide it.” He sent her a look as hard as granite. “That is done by men far wiser than me. I am simply the blade.”
Eisa had escaped, and now the Klaernar refused to pay his reward.
JOKES ON YOU
“Survivor, they call you. Yes, most think you hostage.”
Rallying cry, Silla, she thought. You didn’t die yesterday. You’re not alone right now. Even if your companion has a penchant for burning people alive…
Thats the spirit
Skraeda, stalking her along the Road of Bones at the queen’s behest. Were they not simply blades as well?
Good point
“Tómas was King Kjartan’s bodyguard,”
She would master her galdur and free her sister.
“A Blade Breaker is one of the Warrior Galdra. They are capable of bursts of great strength.
And a Shadow Hound…we play tricks with the light that help us blend with the shadows, bend light, and reshape it to our will.
Mind Galdra have gifts of thought and memory. Solacers, Readers, Weavers.”
what is the goal of this…Uppreisna?” “To put the rightful heir back on the throne,”
Saga didn’t know whether she wanted to laugh or cry. This was devotion on an entirely different level.
Bear smut
“The Cohesion Rite will link my heart and my mind?”
“You knew my parents?” “I taught them both.”
Harpa is your grandmother?”
“Harpa raised my brother and me when we fled north.”
It was rather improper for the High Gothi’s wife to write erotic stories about the Bear God.
You dont say
“I will do this for you, Saga, one time. But you…you will draw for me a map with all tunnels of Askaborg Castle on it.”
“Warrior Galdra,” continued Harpa, “include the Blade Breakers, capable of great strength. The Shadow Hounds, who bend light to their will. The Harefeet, who generate great bursts of speed. Ashbringers, with fire at their fingertips. And the Smiths, who can sever and forge the bonds of this world.”
“Bonds are the weavings of this universe,” said Harpa. “They are everywhere—in everything, so small that you cannot see them. They shape the stones and each blade of grass. The Smiths can change these bonds; can cut them or forge them anew; can create new things from what nature has provided.”
Follow the light, and you will find your heart—the source of your power. Place your hands upon it, and heart and mind will become Cohesed.”
Silla trailed the man. They walked together until they reached an enormous tapestry of black and fiery oranges hung on the wall.
Another tunnel
it was not long before the old king cupped a thin, orange flame in his palm. Ashbringer.
“You were robbed of time with her, Hrolf. You can undo this grave wrong.”
The king straightened his spine. “I will do it.” The shadow crackled with glee. “A life for a life,” it said.
“Use the knife,” said the disembodied voice. “Take it. Deliver the girl’s life to me, and you will hold your beloved Brida once more.”
What need had the man for a map?
even among classes of Galdra, there is diversity.
Rey’s Ashbringer skill, for example, presents as smoke, while other Ashbringers produce flames.”
