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“Ask him if this island is safe. Ask him what its weaknesses are. A man like him would relish answering such a question.”
They carve onto the bottom of each stone a small sigil
directions of obedience.
Once in place, they become immovable and fixed.
He who built a city of glory,
then the city,
the entire ...
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lifted from its foundations and disappeared into ...
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called the city S...
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the City of...
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cupola
cupola /ˈkyo͞opələ/ I. noun 1. a small dome, especially a small dome on a drum on top of a larger dome, adorning a roof or ceiling. 2. a gun turret; a small domed hatch above a gun turret on some tanks. 3. (also cupola furnace) — a cylindrical furnace for refining metals, with openings at the bottom for blowing in air and originally with a dome leading to a chimney above. II. derivatives cupolaed adjective – origin mid 16th cent.: Italian, from late Latin cupula ‘small cask or burying vault,’ diminutive of cupa ‘cask.’
But a feeling of warning in her chest told her that she wasn’t alone.
“You’re the lass who serves in the castle.”
Then two silver eyes glowed to life near the door, and the intruder—a druid, it had to be—began walking toward her.
“You’ll take me to him, lass. If you know what’s good for you. Take me there now.”
“Take me to the druid. Take me to my master!”
She stared at the face, the stone pristinely carved and unblemished by soot, and felt a little pulse of peace in her heart.
She met its eyes and invoked its power.
Eilean struggling to escape just as intently
but she clawed his face with her nails.
He snarled in pain and let go, turning his face away.
but the fire was still burning in the oven, and the flame...
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Eilean brought her...
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she cried out for help and ran toward the castle.
Twynho,
Relief unfurled in her chest.
“In there!”
“Take the talisman!”
“He swam here.”
“I was by the oven. I summoned the fire Leering.”
“You can activate a Leering?”
Utheros—wrote
the Apocrisarius,
which I lead,
to hunt down a...
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bring the Medium’s justi...
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in a trial of fire a...
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“His eyes glowed silver.”
“Can yours do that?”
“...
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“Druids use their talismans to commune with ancient spirit creatures, who in turn use their magic to benefit them.
“They use their talismans to commune with the Unborn. You know of the Myriad Ones, do you not?”
I’m not a dark druid, Eilean.
I fight against them.”
“How can I believe anythin...
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“You can’t. You s...
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“He followed me into the kitchen, the new one they built, and I summoned fire into the oven. That startled him.”
“It’s unusual for a wretched to be able to command a Leering,”
The language is Idumean,”
