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Above this floor were the private suites. Naasir had one, but he preferred to stay with Honor and Dmitri. Why would he want to be by himself when he could be with family?
Only as an adult had Naasir understood just how tolerant and lenient Raphael had been with him.
Yesterday, he’d lain on the grass with Elena after a sparring session, and she’d put her wing across his chest so he could stroke the sleek beauty of it as much as he wanted.
“Not according to your definition. It appears Andromeda has taken a vow of celibacy.” Naasir groaned. “I think I should jump off into traffic. It’d be less painful than such torture.”
It didn’t matter if she made his mouth water; his mate wouldn’t tell him to be what he wasn’t.
Jason had walked alone for a long time, but sometimes he didn’t seem to mind a curious Naasir tagging along.
No one could harm him or make him do bad things while he was in a family with Raphael and Dmitri.
how can a Historian keep a true record if she doesn’t hear and understand all of the voices, even the quietest?
When he was a child, he’d fed from Dmitri or Raphael or Keir. At the time, he hadn’t understood the depth of the honor he was being given.
“If the world is on the brink of catastrophic change,” Suyin said softly, “then, perhaps the next time I wake I will be free . . . and the world will be a ruin. One nightmare to another.”
She would escape this place and when she did, she would record this horror.
Period queen we need to escape this hell
To betray an archangel was to make a mistake that could never be undone.
“Our world is a harsh one.” Xi started walking again. “Immortality equals arrogance for many.”
He didn’t waste time, went up to the ceiling again. No one ever looked up.
“Do you ever feed anyone?” Naasir shot her an intrigued look. “Do you want to taste me?”
Do not steal what only has value if freely given.
she had the awareness that he was like a great big cat who slept with one eye figuratively open. He was even striped like a tiger.
“All those women,” she whispered, eyes crinkling up again. “They boast about how you feed from them, the implication being that you find each one deeply attractive—and you think of them as food!”
she would never forget Naasir. Not so long as she drew breath.
“You cannot predict the future by looking at the past.”
“Have no fear, young one, Suyin has friends here who will protect her and help her heal wounds not so visible.”
the world is changing into a dark place where the innocent are no longer safe.”
“If blood alone is what defines us, no child born is born in freedom.”
Lijuan might believe herself an Ancient, but even if she was older than anyone knew, her age came nowhere close to Caliane’s.
Alexander grieved with me when my love’s heart no longer beat, and he remembered who Nadiel had once been.”
“How did you notice that?” “Because I notice you.”
The twenty-three months Aodhan had been missing had been the most horrific period of Illium’s life
Aodhan to reach out and lock his hand with hers, to make voluntary contact with anyone other than his closest friend.
Naasir didn’t have a mother, but he liked Illium’s. She was soft and kind and even before she’d had her own son, she’d been gentle with Naasir.
“I never played with angel or mortal children before I came to the Refuge. My before-friends were snow wolves. The other children were all dead. Ghosts.”
Osiris had taken and killed the young of many species without compunction. That was one of the many reasons he had to die. One of the many reasons why Alexander had to execute him.
“Alexander’s older brother wasn’t insane. He was just wired wrong and he committed infanticide on a horrific level. Simply because he killed the children of mortals and animals didn’t make his crimes any less terrible—he wiped out entire species in his obsession.”
I knew you’d find me.” Jason had as much curiosity inside him as Naasir, only he hid it better.
Andromeda had better pet him a great deal for this—he’d gone into snow for her.
For the first time, she understood that perhaps her parents were together because no one else could understand what they’d survived.
her mother hugged her close and whispered, “Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.”
Elena took off in a low sweep over the Hudson before using the air currents to rise up. Raphael didn’t need to do the same, but he did so they could fly wing to wing
“Go to your suite. Rest. We’ll speak more when you wake—but know one thing. If this happens again, I’ll be there.”
