Realm of Wind and Vines (Flame and Thorns, #4)

by Marion Blackwood

“This is going to suck.” I ram the dagger right through my own shoulder.

omg

I’m alive. And so are my friends.

“Because I am the Seelie Queen’s second daughter.”

omgg

“Explain what the hell is going on here. How can you be over six thousand years old? What agreement did you make? And what is the Soul of Trees?”

draven asking the important questions

“It means that I’ve had an immortal dryad living inside my head for six thousand years!”

i was somewhat right

“Only the Mother Dryad can create new dryads. But she is trapped inside Lavendera Dawnwalker. And if she is killed, the Mother Dryad dies as well, and then there will be no more dryads. Ever.”

it’s the only thing I want! It’s the only thing that will give me freedom.”

“I’ve been forced to do it for six thousand years! I’ve lived for six thousand years with another person inside my head.” Insanity flashes in her eyes like bolts of lightning. “Do you have any idea how fucking crowded that is?”

All of her strangeness suddenly makes perfect sense.

It’s because there is another person inside her head. And not just a person. An immortal dryad who is an entirely different species from her.

“I just want it to stop. Please, make it stop.”

now i feel bad for her

“I’m so tired.” “I know, child. But I need you to be strong for a little while longer.”

“We will help you find the Soul of Trees.”

The dryads will go to war.”

For the first time in weeks, hope washes through my soul like warm summer waves.

We might actually win this war now.

I scream as an arrow shoots straight towards Draven’s neck.

oh my fucking god

A fireball slams into the arrow, incinerating it one single second before it can pierce Draven’s neck.

thank god

Diana Artemisia, leader of the Purple Dragon Clan, swings a sword straight at Draven’s chest while half of her soldiers fire arrows at us from between the trees and the rest charge forward with blades as well.

what the hellllll

“I don’t have a choice.”

whats happeningg????

Then Isera pulls out a piece of dragon steel from Diana’s arm.

the icehearts can do nothing on their own, always with the fucking dragon steel

did everything I could to make you understand. I tried to convince you that you couldn’t trust me.

Oh no

you’ve walked right into their trap.”

for fucks sake

all changed when they realized what you can do.”

there is a way to break the spirit of someone who refuses to break.”

“He has never broken under torture. So they used you to break him.”

YOU FUCKERS

And they want him to⁠—” “Change our memories,”

I can’t believe that they managed to play us this thoroughly.

We have been such fools. All this time, we’ve been outmaneuvered. They used us. From the very beginning, they used us.

I am so fucking tired of being outsmarted.

as Kander’s attack hits me.

Nononono

My brows furrow in confusion. “Who’s Selena?”

NO YOU FUCKERRRRRRRRRRRR I CANT BELIEVE THISSSS. IT WAS ALL GOING SO FUCKING WELL