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“Romance just complicates life, sets up unrealistic expectations.”
First Children receiving the deep blue Ironflowers as a symbol of the Ancient One’s promise to keep them free from oppression, the flowers offering magical protection from demon fire.
“Wands aren’t the only tools of power, Elloren,” he says, his voice level. “Find your enemies’ weaknesses. And become dangerous.”
It’s easier to cast the Icarals as evil and shun them at birth than it is to admit that every race is a mix.”
“But for me, life would not be worth living without at least having faith in that one thing—that there is another way, a path of justice, if you will. And that there is at least a very small sliver of hope that this path will one day be discovered.”
“Real education doesn’t make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative, Elloren Gardner, is to live your life based on injustice and lies.”
It’s not courage, I think darkly, my stomach now a constant knot. It’s camouflage.
“Flirting with the Resistance, are we?” I let out a deep breath. “I’m afraid I’ve jumped clear into bed with them.”
“Welcome to the Resistance, Mage Gardner.”
