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We’d needed to break them. It had to be done.
The actions of each of you are the actions of all of you. You stand together. If you falter, the whole of Solaria will fall.
“Well if this is what it takes to keep our positions then maybe I don’t like being a part of it,”
“How many times have we sat around this room and discussed all the things we don’t like about the way our parents rule?” I hissed. “And yet at the first real test of our claim, we bow to their way of doing things.”
We’d been humiliated, belittled, abused, and beaten. But not broken. We were made of stronger stuff than that.
instead of striving to be something new, someone more, I was going to embrace who I already was. And that, was a damn good thief.
I just have to make it to Tory. Throw this damn dust, click my ruby shoes like Dorothy and fly us back to Chicago. There’s no place like home… I just wish we had one of those.
Dragon Fire is the only way to make it. They literally have to melt down meteors for this stuff, so unless you want to go and pay Darius Acrux for a bag, you're out of luck,”
I'm not going to be beaten. I'm not going to bow out. I can't. It's not in my nature, dammit.
“We're Fae, Tor. Fuck the Heirs.”
Lance: I think you know me better as the 'bourbon drinking professor with a permanent scowl stamped on his face and a general air of failed dreams about him.' Check out the book, Blue. You'll find it educational. P.S Delete these messages immediately.
I noticed a dark red symbol raised on his forearm which I recognised as the sign for Libra and wondered for a moment why he had someone else’s star sign on his skin.
At the last second, I realised I hadn’t hidden Darius’s dagger and my heart leapt in panic, but it was too late to do anything about it.
“It just occurred to me that you probably don’t know much about The Vampire Code,”
“Well, the different Orders of Fae all have their own governing body to guide the actions of their members while under the influence of their Order form. With so many different behaviours, natures, instincts, and abilities to juggle, it's much easier to maintain control by having individual factions. And as my Source, I thought it was right that you know a bit about-”
It’s our lack of training that puts us at a disadvantage. It might be worth reminding your little friends of that, because just as soon as I get a lock on how to use my magic against the four of you, I’ll be doing it. And I hear payback’s a real bitch.”
“Just tell me why,” I ground out. “Why can’t you accept us saying that we don’t want the throne?”
“Why can’t we just stay here, learn to use our magic and gain our inheritance without it having anything to do with us ruling over a kingdom we know nothing about?”
“I wouldn’t have to think about doing any of that if you’d all just leave us alone,”
“That’s never going to happen,” Caleb said with a shrug. “So what you have to decide is what you’re going to do about it.”
“Holy shit,” Tory breathed, her shoulder knocking mine as she backed up. “She looks like a bird threw up a bucket of worms all over her head. I can’t believe she tried to insult your hair.”
I could see she was totally knocked for six. A small part of me felt sorry for her but after what
she'd done to me, I smothered that thought with a pillow until it suffocated to death.
Hydra. Kraken. Phoenix. Arian Dolphin. Empusa. Ophiotaurus.
“Can anyone tell me what links these Orders?” Orion asked, gazing around the room as if he expected crickets. “They're extinct, sir,” Sofia said, her voice a little high. Orion nodded firmly. “Five points to Ignis. And can anyone tell me why?” He turned back to the board, circling the Hydra Order in red. “Because of impure blood lines?” a raven-haired girl called from the back. “Precisely, Miss Abdul, five points to Aqua,” Orion said. “The Hydra Order is the most recent to become extinct after King Vega died seventeen years ago.”
They are our sworn enemies. Their nature is one of destruction and death.
“It's another mirror world. But it's not like ours or Earth. It's where dark magic originates. Nymphs are born of it, but they cannot wield it. Not unless they steal magic from Fae first.”
“Nymphs are chameleons. They can take the form of Fae.”
glanced down at a raised line of skin beneath my fingers. I frowned as I spotted a dark red tattoo branded there; it was a symbol I vaguely recognised, and it took me half a second longer to remember it was the one for the star sign of Leo.
“Iron is made stronger in the hottest part of the fire, Seth. You didn't break me, you forged me.”
“The boggliest eye I've ever seen. She looked like Mike Wasoswki from Monsters Inc.”
You know I can’t put your life in danger,” he said, rolling his eyes at me as he pressed his thumb to the brand on his arm which linked us to each other.
The Orions and Acruxes were bound by more than the stars. We were bound by power and greed, our families' gifts used for each other's benefit.
Xavier had transformed into a lilac Pegasus complete with golden horn and rainbow patterned wings. His coat shone with glitter in the light of my magical orbs and his wide, horsey eyes looked back at us fearfully.
A Pegasus was about as far as you could get to the opposite end of the Order spectrum. They were flying horses who pooped glitter, granted wishes and were... cute. Xavier hadn’t even been lucky enough to have a dark coloured coat, it was lilac. Lilac!
If she could face the school with her hair hacked to bits, then I could take part in a lesson by a pool with a couple of douchebags.
Holy crap on a cornflake.
“Holy shit, Geraldine,” I muttered as I looked over her brindle coat in astonishment. “Who knew you were a straight up badass underneath the sweet raisin bran exterior?”
I swore never to take them for granted ever again.
