The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1)

by Antonia Hodgson

Our more playful fragments would enjoy that tremendously, but even we have rules we must follow. Today we are here to see, not to be seen. And we have an appointment to meet.

we are the Raven, and we are magnificent.

There were stories of ghosts and other things, darker things, inhabiting the shadows. Let us not worry ourselves with those things, let us not speak of them.

She did not need to break into the monastery’s Hidden Library and steal a spell book. All she needed was a song, old as the Ketuan mountains, passed down from generation to generation.

“The benefit of focusing on one spell,” she said to Yana. “In time you become its mistress.

The most important duty of any leader is to oversee his own peaceful succession.

And all those boring reforms will go of course,” he waved his hand, dismissing them. “That must be sad for you. It’s like…”

I’d spent years building a palace, only to have someone come along in the night, and knock it down.”

“Exactly!” He pointed at her. “I’m going to use that. You built a palace, and we knocked it down.” A nasty grin. “Everything back the way it should be.”