An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2)

by James Islington

Davian leaned forward instead, twisting the ring on his forefinger absently and focusing on the courtyard.

Loyal. Im very very glad

think it might be worth at least talking to some of these boys?” “Not particularly.”

WE LOVE LOYALTY

Wirr held her gaze for a few seconds, wishing he could show more affection.

Wirr’s bodyguard staggered backward from the impact and then crumpled to the floor, a dark-red patch spreading rapidly across his shirt,

Gosh dammit i liked him

“I think I know the ones you’re talking about. Follow me, Representative, and be dazzled by my map-finding skills.”

“Are you here, flesh?”

Thats crazy. Calling her flesh goes hard

And then how he’d tried to bring her back. How he’d tried to use that strange power—the one he hadn’t been able to tap again since—to buy her life with countless others.

Hmmmmmm why did i not realize that man was also ceadan ... Am i slow ? Or just really confused

Tal’kamar,”

Im starting to think im an idiot

Ell—Nethgalla—shook her head. “I cannot imagine how hard it must be for you to even conceive of it, Tal. I—” “Do not call me that,” Caeden growled. Nethgalla winced,

Okay caedan steals her power to shift … a shit wait he isnt shifting every day so does that mean he lost the power??? Shes got it back???

Asha could barely hear Vhalire, he was talking so softly.

As soon as i think i know whats going on they say he and i get the genders all wrong

Malshash’s memory

Ceadans *

“She’s my best friend, and I’m in love with her. That’s what she has, Ishelle.”

Iove davian and i love asha and i LOVE their loyalty to each other

“Tal’kamar gave me Whisper, and all I had to do was save you and your friend.”

Interesting

“Tal’kamar is what he called himself, but … most of my people know him as Talkanor.” Wirr blinked, glancing across at Andyn, who gave him a wry shrug. “As in, Marut Jha Talkanor? The god?” He couldn’t keep the incredulity from his tone.

I cant wait till he realzies ceaden is a god

Elocien

JAmes really likes names that start with El

Mash’aan

This name is very similar to malshash

“Why trust me with this?” “Because I know that you know, deep down, that we’re friends,” said Alaris vehemently, an edge of affectionate exasperation to his tone. “Despite all that’s happened, despite everything, we’re friends. And I don’t care what memories you do or don’t have—you, Tal’kamar Deshrel, would never kill a friend.”

The day on which you decide not to question what you believe, is the day that you start making excuses for why you believe it.” Alaris

Caeden responded with a wry look, but nodded slowly. “I may take you up on that offer.” He didn’t let his gaze waver. “But no matter what you say, I won’t abandon my friends.” Alaris’s look was pained. “And I’d never ask you to,” he said softly.

This is weirdly really emotional because i think tal is alaris' best frien and he doesnt remember and isnt taking his side

“Stop the Lyth, Tal,” said Alaris quietly. “Stop the Lyth, and then we can worry about everything else.”

Im excited for the everything else

Aelric sleepily, peering inside. His black hair was uncharacteristically unkempt,

I swear to fuck he was blonde in the first book

“We can’t start mistaking what we can do for what we have the right to do.”

“But I don’t believe that is true anymore. My name—my real name—is Davian.” He glanced over his shoulder. “Now figure out a way to get me out of here, Nethgalla.”

WOAHHHHHHHHHHHH

“The five Blades, forged by the God of Invention himself? Of these, Whisper is one. The others are Thief, Knowing, Sight, and Fate.”

Isil. Alarius. Meldier. Werek. Andral. Talkanor. All names from the Gil’shar pantheon.

painfully aware again. He locked gazes with Wirr, expression more confused than anything else. His head crumpled inward in an explosion of red viscera.

Oh!

“You were going to kill them?” she asked in horror. “I was going to escape. Whether they died would have been up to them,” said Breshada calmly.

“I will use it,” said Breshada abruptly. “With such an advantage, I can certainly kill all three.”

I love the confidence

Charis’s decapitated head

They still don’t believe that Devaed is responsible for the attacks—don’t

He isnt hehehe

“You were an idiot—there’s no denying that—but there’s not a malicious or deceitful bone in your body, Torin. It’s one of the reasons I love you.”

Juicyyyyy!!!!!

He was immortal. It was about time he started acting like it.

This made me laugh because he is abput to go into a room with a sword that can kill hi.

You think that I do not understand your plan? I made your plan. I whispered in the ears of your best and brightest. I sent them

“His name is Caeden,” she said quickly. “He’s on our side.” Breshada stopped in front of Caeden as the young man watched her warily. Slowly, she shook her head. “I know who he is,” she said. “His name is Tal’kamar.”

Breshada’s face began to writhe.

Dammit I like Breshada ~ I wonder how long she wasn’t her

How long had Nethgalla been Breshada? And … had she been the Shadraehin all along, too, then?

Yea I had a feeling about that one ~ I hope she wasn’t Kara too that would be a buzz kill

You took my ability for ten years.”

I personally thought it’d be longer

Breshada’s—the real Breshada’s—transformation from Hunter to Gifted was starting to make much more sense, too.

That does make sense

Karaliene

Its gotta be nethgalla

Everywhere he looked there was just dry, cracked ground and endlessly, unnaturally flat horizons, broken only by occasional distant shapes that may or may not have been hills.

Fessi and dav are gonna be prisoners soon

“No,” he said softly. “I mean that I think it’s gone.”

Well of course it i

Even with the seemingly boundless power crashing around inside of her,

Her with the siphon power really gives of will of the many energy

The sky to the east had turned black.

Damn she really should have gotten in the tributary

Ilshan Gathdel Teth.

Just cadully now on the other side of the boundary

“You know this. The true evil is always in the reason and the excuse, not the act.

“After that, it will be up to you to seal the rift.

Oop but he is dead

“Certainty is hubris, Tal. It is arrogance and bluster and those who claim it deserve nothing but to be mocked.”

“Friends. Enemies.” Meldier smiled sadly. “We have known each other for thousands of years, Tal’kamar. We are men. We have been both.”

He collapsed beside her body, everything a haze of pain and grief, for … a minute? Two? Thousands of years of life, and he had just snuffed it out.

Damn. Im kinda confused on why he has to kill thwm all

If there had been two sets of armor, he’d have been the one demanding to stay behind. He was an idiot like that.