Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach / ReDawn / Evershore

by Brandon Sanderson

I’d never read the book, though now I wished I had. There were still a few copies on ReDawn. Something about a ring.

These things had relationships with each other long before the humans captured them, I realized, but they saw the humans not as kidnappers but as a joyous addition to their family.

“Do you believe everything you’re told?” I asked. “No,” FM said. “But it’s hard for most people to ignore the dominant messaging sometimes, especially when no one is willing to speak against it.”

Alanik looked like she might punch Cuna if they called her “lesser” one more time.

FM smiled at Rig. The two of them were scudding adorable, which lately made me want to punch things. Spensa’s influence, probably.

I couldn’t remember what it felt like to laugh. I wondered if that meant I had already drowned.

“Some things are under your control, and others aren’t. You do the best you can with what you have to work with. And that is what sets you apart—what you do with it.”

“You are the Restorer of Lost Souls,” Juno said solemnly. “He Who Hearkens unto Silent Voices, Opener of Locked Doors. Where you go, I will go, shadow-walker.”

“Like the Saint says,” Kimmalyn said, “if you don’t have anything to say, you might scare your flightleader into thinking you’re dead.”