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Everyone knows about spirits, but from conversations I’ve overheard, I know humans shouldn’t be able to perceive them like I can. I’ve always been more sensitive to their dimension.
There are three kinds of vessels: Silver Military Vessels worn by Zarr infantry, gold Second-Made Vessels, worn by kings and nobility, and the single white First-Made Vessel. My father’s vessel.
The same gold-and-black shape from the spirit dimension flickers at the edges of my sight, as it usually does when I get too worked up for too long.
Rebelia is half-naked in a red two-piece with loose golden hair and eyes as black as the walls behind her.
Black eyes=god?
Except it’s no longer my home. My mother is dead, my sister is probably dead, and my ex-wife—
Ew hate that
—Lo
His sister
he’ll need someone who fights as fiercely as she loves.
“Her bonded spirit is protecting her soul. So, if I can’t get into her caster shield, I’ll have to remove her bond spirit.” I draw a cutting line across my fingers. “Then, I’ll force her to give me her soul.”
the royal cars—the lasting remnants of the fourth kingdom and their once great technology.
Makes me think kida apocolyptic
“Because you are not mine!”
Oh
“Tell me something real,” I say. I’m surrounded by false faces. False emotions. False family members. “I need something real.”
This isnt gonna go well
“Half-souls and pure souls both come from the power of gods.
“Pure souls grow in the womb of a goddess or are fathered by a god. An actual child of the gods.”
“What if Mazzar is the god?” Jasper shakes his head. “I’ve met him. He’s only half.”
Lekk Rexion, second general of the Light Jaxelli Warriors.
“I am Dagen Corvonna, son of Queen Maven and King Gorrik, born on the sixth moon of the year 3039.”
Ah the future
“Your father is possessed. And once his spirit takes full control over him, you will have to end him.”
He told me Kathreen really wants children, but a healer confirmed he isn’t capable of bearing them.
and a woman with a spray of freckles on her cheeks—
Thats convenient
“You may like nice girls, but your heart beats for hellions.”
I get it now, and I wonder if she knew I’d find someone who was both.
“It’s always been about your soul.” His lips tug into that smirk. “I just didn’t think keeping it safe would be harder than stealing it.”
“There is a war, much bigger than the three kingdoms. Me and my people cannot fight it, for we can give life, but not take it. You will be capable of both.
I was murdered but not allowed to pass on. Given godly power, but no freedom. Offered the chance to be with someone at the cost of the one I wish to be with.
The scream that rips from me is involuntarily as my soul is torn from my flesh, but the worst part, is the bond shattering between Dae and me.
