The Seventh Cadence (The Continua Chronicles, #1)

by Jim Wilbourne

A long shadow snaked over the plain, passing under smoke and airborne dust, sweeping over blood and sweat and gold-flecked ashes that still glowed even as the fires that had ignited them drifted away.

Wrathbane

Not going to lie but I was hoping this was a dragon. Horse is still cool

King Jeremiah thought. He paused for Esther’s reply, but she remained silent, distant. Safe.

👀

the route had an old wooden bridge spanning across the bend where moss-covered rocks protruded like a misaligned backbone.

“The surgeries …” Amie said.

👀

“You can’t expect one’s looks to be a reflection of her true nature.”

“Lying to a woman is the most dangerous thing you could ever do.”

“With little due respect, Diplomat Carowin,

Lol

There was a house there―it belonged to some local looney―but it was burned to the ground, too.”

Oh it's all connected now

There it is

seventh cadence form—was

There it is

“Dragon.”

Finally. Been waiting to get to them

But fate is an ocean stronger than any man.

“I think I just found a new muscle,” Mel said into the darkness. “And it hurts.” “Is it your tongue?” Bear asked. “It ain’t never stopped since we met.”

Lol

Tele didn’t want to believe what she saw. It was impossible. Why would a Thief-Taker be riding atop such a beast? What was a Thief-Taker doing here, so far away from the Deseran Dominion?

Oh 👀

eat. You must replant it, but it will regrow where you desire.”

Very cool

“Sir?” Gabriel said. “I’m not experienced enough to—” The captain looked at him. “And I also presume you’re not experienced enough to tell me who I should and shouldn’t promote.” “No, sir,” Gabriel said. “I’m not.”

Great lines

Pragmatism that bleed into cold dishonor.

“Those elephants are armed to the tusks,” Paitin said. “I’d like to avoid them if we can.”

Reminds me of the the scene from Return of the king

“It’s funny how small the world is when you place yourself at the center of it.

All that he’d done, all that he’d sacrificed to reach his father and claim his freedom was for nothing.

Poor baby

Cainan in two,

Rip

She handed him the parchment. “We have to activate this spell. It’ll attract the compound in the air to ice—the dragons—causing the reaction needed to stop them.”

This is very cool

title. The Gateway Abbreviation.

Oh no