Fireborne (The Aurelian Cycle, #1)

by Rosaria Munda

The kind of narratives we explored in play as children, but now, we should be old enough to know better.

You see, Annie, they watch us kneel, they see the back of our heads, and they think we’ve given in. They don’t realize you can think from your knees just as well as from your feet.

Bring what fury you have and I will answer it with ours.

anymore. These people understand justice only as revenge. They are undeserving, ignorant, and cruel. It goes on, these thoughts, this mounting anger, until it crystallizes into one overriding feeling: disgust. Then with a jolt I wonder: Was this how the dragonlords thought of us?

Which is your favorite. He comforted me. Lord Leon.

I look down at this boy, vulnerable, at my mercy, and think, To the ends of the earth I will protect you.

he leans forward, tips my head down, and kisses me on the forehead. He quotes the Aurelian Cycle in Dragontongue. You have given life to me.

dragonlords reigned brutally and killed indiscriminately. They’re responsible for the deaths of thousands. They cannot be allowed to come back.