Flamefall (The Aurelian Cycle, #2)

by Rosaria Munda

Tonight I’m full of confidence, like a dragon riding a gale. I am done letting these tendrils of shame tie me to the ground. No shadow is so great that it doesn’t shrink when viewed from the air.

I wait for him to take a step closer, like memory-Julia did. He doesn’t. So I do. “You waived the punishment. Rhode dropped it.” Delo nods. I am nose to nose with him, testing it. Seeing if he’ll order me to back down. I can hear his breath, feel its warmth as it hitches. He remains where he stands, gaze steady.

Oh?????

“We’ll be waiting for you,” he says.

We???

the poison that killed the dragons during the Revolution with numb ears. Dragons are immune to most toxins, and the creation of drachthanasia is a legendarily difficult art,

Im sure this will be important later/soon

“Because I want it.” Delo swallows—a beautiful, shuddering swallow—and I catch his mouth on mine.

Aw..wow forbidden love between classes oof

“Told you,” Phemi tells Ethelo. Ethelo is a passus, forsaken by dragons, and it leaves him prone to joking—about himself, and about others. He wolf-whistles at Delo as he gets to his feet. “We’ve been waiting on this one for years, brother.” He lifts a mug of tea as if in toast and bows with a flourish. “Heartfelt congratulations to you both.”

Oops lol

“I won’t.”

Oh shit just basically admit it

“You went through her stuff—?” “Megara asked me to, after Atreus’s address this morning.

Rude af

The dragonlord’s whore.

So fkn rude!!

Megara stiffens. “I was trying to do the right thing.”

U suck

“Because he’s been an ass to you for months!”

Fair

Yeah, maybe I’m not good, I’m not noble, but I have your back and I’ve had it the whole bloody time!”

Oh so you like her?!

Annie’s smile turns pained. “Which parts?”

All of a sudden I’m worried that Power is the informant for the other side

“Annie, I think something’s going on—”

Aw fuck - but really though go tell someone else fuck you. Now you wanna be helpful?

someone else.

Power????