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also dressed to serve, I find Rock.
WHAT?! ROCK IS ALIVE?!
“I hear we match.”
Oh Rock *tears*
“And conveniently, the one with rank to challenge you is under arrest.”
fuck yeah freya
“But I thought it was learned today that she’s less your family’s dog than your . . . in-law.”
BRILLIANT FUCKING WOMAN
A few gasp at the sight of the brand. Freyda, who sits closest, looks at the disfigurement without any change of expression or sound.
What a poker face
“A mistrial. You will allow that woman, Hane, to participate in the vetting of a new jury without interference. You will allow her to call her own witnesses. And if I hear that you have tampered with the legal proceedings of Antigone’s trial in any way again—if I hear that you have so much as laid a finger on her—I will find a different viceroy.”
BRILLIANT STRONG WOMAN
“I always wondered what side you were playing for.”
Lol Delo
Power hooks an ankle over a knee and palms his shaved head with a grin. “I wondered the same about you.”
Double lol
Power has no time for it. “Yeah, you got me. I had a plan with Antigone to rustle up her dragon in the arena.”
Power does not have time for your shit you misogynist
“Because I’m nuts for her.”
Oh shit he admitted it to other people
“Nuts for her. Head over heels, would die to save her, in love with her. It’s completely unrequited, she and I both know it, and yet here I am hopelessly, madly in love with Antigone sur freaking Aela.”
POWER YOU DOG THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU
All that’s left of Power is a trail of blood leading out the door.
Please dont die Power everyone needs to know you an mvp
“Yeah, I’m . . . I’ll be all right.” But it’s clear, even in the dim light, he’s not.
I will kill them
Power’s busted but not dead, which means Ixion sees a use for him yet. And the fact that he’s in here with me—
Oh gods what is he planning
wake and find the arm around me is Power’s.
Good for you Power
The physician’s tended me, but not him. An ominous sign neither of us has commented on.
Power…
“We went for walks and we ate a lot of shellfish. Aela . . . laid.”
Shit you telling Power abou the eggs
He tells the ceiling, “It was Rock or Crissa. I was scared what they’d do to Crissa.”
Power I love you still
kiss him on the cheek, and Power covers his eyes with a hand and rolls away from me.
Oh Power …
I have the feeling that whatever decisions he made regarding the Triarchy, he has since regretted.
Good Lucian, you should feel bad
“She was the one who refused to retake the Vault, the night we seized the People’s Paper. The funny thing was—we didn’t know, so we used that printing to destroy her reputation.”
FINALLY THE TRUTH
She keeps her head bent over the paper, but I glimpse her free hand wipe inky tears from her cheeks.
Thats Right cry bitch
There are fires and hatchlings and Lee in the kitchen of the Big House, laughing as he takes my waist with hands soapy from dishwater. Freyda Bassileon points at my belly: See? I said she was with child.
My heart, it will never be real
Power’s arms are around me, every muscle in his body taut; we lie in the same unforgiving darkness.
Love this small W for Power
Power rolls onto his knees, facing me. His voice takes the tone of challenge he used when we trained together on the Eyrie and he goaded me to find my anger.
Mems
Power’s voice rises. “Like your mum? Like mine? I’d rather be like them than that excuse for a human being who was my father.”
Fuck yes Power let the truth out!
“Some of the bravest women in our lives have been peasant women, Annie. They’re why we’re here. Even if they go unsung.”
Cheers to the unsung women
‘You’d better be glad the Firstrider is more patient with insults than I am.’
Power is the ultimate wingbud
She always did it quiet.”
Kindness not for show is the most honest ad telling
“Because Ixion is issuing a warning to our jury.”
Fucking Ixion
Delo bursts into my study spewing rainwater like a drowned otter and shivering to his toes in the dead of night.
BANG BANG INTO THE ROOM AND HOPEFULLY GRIFF'S BED
Delo’s body is slick with all that rainwater.
Damn right it is
“Told you he was decent.”
Told ya, Powr haters
Come with me. So I do.
OOOOHHH SHIT Aela letting Lee ride her!
His fingers close around my throat.
Oh god, Ixion keep your fingers to yourself!
There is a thump, a rasp, and the air returns suddenly to my lungs. Power and Ixion roll across the floor.
Power you gem
ragged sheet of paper that looks like a Passi printing, then kneels beside me and seizes the back of my head.
THE POEM
Ixion’s knife is at Power’s chest,
NO DONT YOU DARE
I am shouting the Plea, palms on the ground like my father taught me, knowing all the while it will not be enough. Ixion’s knife remains flush against Power’s heart.
NO NO NO
The knife slides into Power’s chest.
NO POWER NO NO NO
“They may try to paint you as a hero, but we all know you’re just a pleading peasant bitch like your mother before you.”
FUCK YOU IXION YOU CUNT
find Power’s wound and press against the opening, but the blood wells, too fast and too thick, seeping down his torso.
Power is going to die and I cant bear it
“Hey,” says Power, reaching out to touch my face, “stop doing that.”
Weeping
came lowborn to defy them: Who was expelled from her home, fell from all grace, and rose on a dragon’s wings.
That's our girl
“That’s the kind of poem I can get behind,” he says.
I love you Power
“It’s been an honor, Commander.”
WEEPING SOBBING THROWING UP. LIAM FLASHBACK AND I AM NOT OK
Power’s chin lowers to his chest. The guard finds me curled around him, lips against his forehead, the medal clutched bloody in my hand.
RIP Power you deserved more than this but also this was perfect for your character
Antigone?” Her chin has set, and her brown eyes blaze. “Go show them what you’re made of.”
FUCKING SHOW THEM ALL
“To the charges of high treason and crimes against the state, the jury finds Antigone sur Aela not guilty.”
FUCK YES
“I challenge Ixion sur Niter to the title of Firstrider.”
Get him
