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It’s the kind of thing that can’t help making you feel proud of your country. Even if it turns out that your country is not so proud of you.
“And I assume you’ll be betting on me, Lotus. Since I’m your squadron leader?”
I like her
What were my vows for, if not obedience to the will of the state? And the state wants this boy.
Girl
Like hell am I throwing this match.
There you go !!
No. That world is gone now, and I’m done with it. And then, with a surging sorrow that I thought I had outgrown: Forgive me, Father.
“That I lived to see the day when Silas’s daughter rode a dragon. We’ve never been prouder of anything, Annie.”
Tears
It justified his looking after her, because she belonged to him.
Damn wtf
“Sure,” he said. “Maybe you could be my maidservant or something.”
Geez
The things you’re taught to care about, when you’re not afraid of starving. By the end, I’m sick with shame.
He knows
A full fleet, announcing itself. They’ve been biding their time.
Shit
But the boy didn’t listen. He was watching his father’s dragon struggle to breathe.
Poor baby
Standing like this, holding the girl, he watched the axe cut off the head of his father’s dragon.
She was burned by it. Does she know he is stormscourge
“Then they must have deserved it!”
Omg
If it comes to a choice, I need to choose according to my conscience and my vows. Friendship will not justify treason.
He heard floorboards creak as she shifted forward, and then he felt her hands reach out, clutch him, and pull him toward her.
My heart
Though he didn’t note it consciously, this was the first day he tried not to think of his family when they surfaced in his mind.
When I look up, I find that Annie’s too-bright eyes haven’t left my face.
Shes begging you not to turn into your father
Her smile is simple, easy, happy as she looks up at him. The kind of smile—carefree, unstained by old memories—that she’s never given me.
Against all expectations, it was Julia—destined to a suitable match and the domestic confines that came with it—who controlled the orbits of our play with the magnetism of the sun.
Damn i like her
It was the first time I’d ever seen evidence of violence inflicted on a dragonborn.
I listened, and remembered Aletheia, and fought nausea.
Its got to be hard not to feel like a traitor either way
And then, in that blank, I remind myself: I spend Midsummer with Annie.
Shit
“The aurelian squadron’s taking care of him. We’re taking care of you.”
Aww fr womankind
And then he deploys the brogue he usually pretends not to have. The brogue of home. “Up you get, finalist.”
Aww the girls and the highlanders
“Crissa, we’ve all sworn vows of poverty, how’re we supposed to buy ourselves drinks—”
I honestly want her to win. Lee is her defender. He cant lead on his cousins but he WILL save her
It’s strange how you can fight your way to a door, even through it, without thinking about what lies on the other side.
We all do it
Hane extends her own hand and I realize, belatedly, that she expects me to shake it. Like we’re adult males.
Uh no
But the realization I most regret, the one I hate and resist most of all, is that while I’ve always known what he is, the worst thing is not what he is but who. That even if I’ve never been told exactly who Leo was, I’ve begun to recognize his maturing face.
Shit
The boy who had no father, who reminded me of no one, who mattered to me only because in a world where we had no one, he was kind.
“I’m going to coach you.”
I love this
My family died at the hands of the old regime. And I would sooner die than see its crimes repeated.”
“You, my dear,” the man says, squeezing my arm, “are the light of the nation. This is what we once only dared to dream of.”
Awww
He quotes the Aurelian Cycle in Dragontongue. You have given life to me.
Until it becomes, at last, Come back to me.
My heart.
“Let the blood on my hands be my offering; let the spoils of my battle stand as proof of my loyalty.” And then he places his palms flat on the ground. “All that I have, I offer to Callipolis. I am at your mercy, to be kept or cast out, according to your wish.”
And today, the choices that began in childhood made us strong enough to defy two regimes, in the name of revolution. Together we’ll defy them, step by step through this fire, to the end.
