Stars Wake (Mooncallers #1)

by Leda C. Muir

rapacious.

Ares scarcely understood any of the big words Oscerin used with him,

onus

irresolute.

verge

surreptitiously

he said redolently.

said Luxea breathily.

augured,

said Ares earnestly.

Ares briefed the others about his experience with the the Day Trail and the Night Trail.

forfeit

mocked Oliver.

yawned Oliver.

begged Ares.

Proving himself,

said Ares standoffishly.

idiosyncratic,”

said Ares snidely.

suggested Cherish.

said Luxea worriedly.

said Ares irksomely.

said Ares guardedly.

said Avari avidly.

said Avari rapturously.

he said laconically.

laconically.

egr...

Alucard lounged in the driver’s seat and nibbled on stale bread as he spectated the wolf doing whatever it was that he was doing.

spectated

said Brielle cockily.

interpret

said Cherish flat...

swag...

said Brielle quickly.

“You remind me of the Koi, but you’re under the sign of Varnn. It’s odd to me. Bat Children are mavens of affliction and recklessness, but you’re gentle and intuitive like Ocaranth. I suspect you were born in a year when the stars were misaligned. Offhand, I might guess 87.TIR.”

sennight

wondered Luxea.

said Brielle intellectually.

forebodings

desecrating

pundit

he said pleasantly.

said Ares minimally.

said Cherish smokily.

“I hope it isn’t in bad taste to ask, but I’m dying to learn about your condition.” Ares revealed his talons, asking if that was the ‘condition’ to which he’d referred. Cherish nodded once. Ares tucked it back under his arm and asked, “What about it?” “What’s it like?” asked Cherish, eyes gleaming. “Dragons are the most deadly creatures in existence. You must feel such enormous power from —” “Try fear,”

said Ares ...

asked Cherish insensitively.

behoof.

knave,”