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I’ll be waiting for you there, Saeris Fane. F
Im MAD.
I well and truly broke when I saw what rested on the mantlepiece above the fire. Nimerelle.
A SUICIDE NOTE ESSENTILY AND LEAVING THE SWORD? YOU MIGHT AS WELL KILL ME W IT
So Kingfisher had gone to Gillethrye to save Everlayne and everyone else he cared about. And he had gone there alone and unarmed.
Im sick
Ren got to his feet, letting out a long exhale. “I could kiss you, Carrion Swift.” Carrion seemed taken aback by this. And then somewhat interested. After thinking for a second, he said, “I wouldn’t be opposed. But maybe later. First, Saeris has work to do, and I plan on giving her a hand.”
Ok bi king
“Saeris! Wait! The water!”
“Actually, this is only the first circle of hell, Lorreth of the Broken Spires. But I’d be very happy to introduce you to all five.”
It could only have been him, because I had met the other figures who sat on either side of him. They knew perfectly well who I was. To the right of the dais sat Belikon. To the left… Madra.
GASPPPPPPPPPPPP
“You should have at least let them try, Brother. I was looking forward to seeing the look on their faces when they realized how much trouble they were in.”
BROTHER????!
“You spayed my mate when she was a fucking child,” he seethed. “For that alone, I’ll make your undying existence an unending agony. An eternity of suffering the likes of which even your evil mind cannot comprehend. You’ll know no peace at my hands. I will destroy your empire and erase your name from the annals of time. When I am done with your legacy, Madra the Undying will never have existed. And you’ll live on at my behest, suffering for all of eternity. And no one will know. And no one will care.”
HE DONT PLAY AB HIS WOMAN
Yes, the players in this game had been making moves for centuries. But that didn’t change the nature of the game. It was kill or be killed, and I knew what I had to do to win.
Feigning shock, I said, “Wait a minute. I think Death just remembered your name, Harron.” And then I snapped his neck.
ATTTTA GIRL BITCH
“Stay the fuck where you are,” Fisher growled. “It can’t see or hear you. It tracks movement.”
Like the middengard worm bitcg
Malcolm rocked back on his heels, lips stained red, his chin crinkling in an odd way as he frowned down at Carrion. “You…” he said. Carrion was deathly pale, but he grinned up at Malcolm like a lunatic. “You really should have let me finish introducing myself earlier. It’s rude to interrupt people.”
Omg what he do
“My name is Carrion Swift. But there was a time when I was known as Carrion Daianthus. Firstborn son to Rurik and Amelia Daianthus.”
HELLO???
“You tricked me?” He choked, vomiting up another gush of blood. “You tricked me into drinking Daianthus blood?” “Holy… fucking… gods.” Fisher and Lorreth muttered the curse in unison. “What the hell is happening?” Daianthus? I’d heard the name, but I couldn’t remember when.
Me either fr
It’s notoriously difficult to detect magic in half-blood Fae.
SHES HALF FAE?
“Earth. Air. Fire. Water. Salt. Brimstone. Quicksilver. The full gamut. More power than any Alchemist I’ve ever encountered. You are capable of restoring me to my power and a lot more besides.”
That he’d fed from you,” he sneered. “He wore that silver plate at his throat every day he was trapped here in this labyrinth. A gift from his mother, I believe. Pure silver imbued with some particularly nasty magic.
Malcolm’s smile fell when I lifted the little leather pouch he’d placed the coin inside. The very same one I’d unhooked from his belt while he’d torn a hole in my stomach. He held out his hand, his eyes widening a touch. “Give that to me,” he demanded. “Give it to me, and I might still save you. There’s time.”
PERIODDD ATTENZIONEEE PICKPOCKET
“Only the gods are eternal,” I told him. And I cut off Malcolm’s head.
PEROOOOODT
Madra— The coward disappeared into the quicksilver as soon as the wind hit.
Taladaius wanted to turn me? I don’t… I can’t be a feeder, Fisher. Please. Fisher shook his head. “You wouldn’t be. You’d be like him.” I wouldn’t die? “No.” Would I have to feed? “We don’t know.”
SHES GONNA BE A VAMPIRE
He is the storm. You are the peace that must come after it. Tell me, do you believe in the fates, Alchemist?
A shadow falls across Yvelia. It will alter all it touches. You would rather remain here, knowing that suffering and hardship loom on the horizon? That sacrifices will need to be made?
I barely had time to scream as it cinched tight around my ribs and dragged me below its surface.
OH SHIT
“Zareth. God of Chaos.” Zareth grunted. “And you are Saeris. Sister to Hayden. Daughter to no one.” He nodded to the inkwork on my hands. “Also, mate to my champion.”
to reset the balance and clear the way for what is to come.”
WHAT IS TO COME
“There is a rot spreading throughout my domain, Saeris,” he said. “Realms that are infected with that rot have to be summarily destroyed to protect the rest of the tree and prevent that rot from spreading. Do you understand?”
But when I consulted the fates long ago, I was very intrigued when I saw you, Saeris Fane. Not just you. Kingfisher, too. I saw an axis in the flow of things. A burning knot in the tapestry of all that would come to be. When I focused and saw the strength of the bond that connected the two of you together, I admit I attempted to sway the fates.”
“You were supposed to have been born Fae, in the same realm as your Kingfisher. So I separated you. Hundreds of years before you were born, I shifted the events around your birth. Moved the pieces on the board and placed you far away, in a realm that should never have come into contact with his.
I foresaw then that no matter how the boughs and branches of this tree were manipulated, you and he would always collide. There was nothing I could do to stop it.”
Every possible future where the two of you are together ends with the vast majority of this tree dying. None of us can foresee any other way.”
“So… you’re saying that Fisher and I are responsible for the end of the entire universe?” Zareth shook his head. “Not you personally. But the moment where you meet, along with the moment you become mates, is a spark. The flame in the dark that draws the moth. It was incumbent upon me to try and stop that spark from taking place,
“These oaths mark you as my ward. They protect both you and Fisher from the unwanted attentions of my brothers and my sister.” “Protection from them?”
If you truly accept Fisher as your mate, then you must agree for the thread of your life to be severed from the tapestry of the universe. Once you do, none of us may affect your future. We won’t be able to see you at all, nor will my brothers and my sister be able to interfere with timelines or events
“As far as we can tell, you’re a half-vampire, half-Fae. Something none of us have ever seen before.
“There are two kinds of forever, Alchemist. One is heaven. The other is hell. It doesn’t matter what I do. Make sure you choose your version of immortality wisely.”
“And? I’ve known you since I was a thousand and eighty-six. Do I win a prize?” “You didn’t tell me that you were heir to a fucking Fae throne!” “Well, it’s hardly something you just tell people, Fane. And anyway, my grandmother made me promise not to.” “Except she wasn’t your grandmother, was she!”
This is brazy
“So, Fisher’s father took you to Zilvaren when you were little to save you from Belikon. He glamored your ears and your canines so you wouldn’t stand out. He brought a bag of books along with you, so you could learn about your heritage and return when the time was right. And… some woman saved you?”
What, I couldn’t say, but I was sure we were all going to find out soon enough.
Prophecy prophecy
Madra had fled through the quicksilver immediately. Belikon had put up a prodigious fight, but the second Lorreth’s angel breath had torn out of Avisiéth, he, too, had fled like a fucking coward.
Ugh so we still gotta worry ab them
“Are you going to tell me about my parents, or are you going to start undressing each other? Because I can leave. I don’t have to, but I can,” Carrion said.
HAHAH
“Human, Fae, or vampire. It doesn’t matter how long you live, Saeris; you will always be most sacred to me.”
I was the ward of a god, and not just any old god. By proxy, Fisher kind of was too.
“Tell them that. As far as the vampire court is concerned, you’re to be coronated. In two days’ time, you officially become the new queen of Sanasroth.”
BRO WHAT
