A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos #0.1)

by Samantha Shannon

Most Ersyri houses were built of stone or clay. For the most part, they had withstood the fire

Cn we make housws that dont burn?

dark wood?

Is wulf brown;?

When you realise it was all for nothing, and it shatters your heart again, I will be waiting here, with our family – to remind you what you had, and what you decided was not enough.’

Lord Edrick had always had a weakness for mysteries.

‘Good to meet you at last. Father’s half a day behind,’ he added to Wulf and Mara. ‘Pa will keep an eye on things at Langarth.’

This family tree gets more confusing

Close by, a wolf gave a howl, and others answered.

Id be pissed if i was roland

What is the world, Dumai asked her, but a fleeting dream, from which we will all one day wake?

Do not condemn yourself to be as I am – tied to your own blood, and trapped.

Her own muscles were tight, her stomach baulking at the sight of a god lying dead.

This one burned from the inside. A hiss escaped her. Fire from the earth

devours the flesh and runs wild in the blood.

The tortured earth breathes hot, and burns as if with fever . . .

Only fallen night can stop it. She gripped the saddle. Only fallen night .

There is a foulness on the wind. The fire comes, but the star has not. The star that brought us to this world; the long-tailed light from the black waters of creation. I must protect the land I call home.

‘Such is politics.’ Marian shook her head. ‘A circle with no end. A game with no victors.’

She was still not used to Inysh towns – the noise and smells, the winding streets. In the South, settlements tended to be spread across more ground, allowing the buildings and people to breathe.

It will be a day of fallen night, when the heavens will part for a rain from on high. The wyrms will sink into a sleep, and storms will quench the embers.’

She sensed the Regency Council shifting, even those who had pushed for this match. Now they were faced with the royal couple, no one could deny the horrific absurdity of it.

she tried not to look for Nikeya. Instead

Are y'all cousins or

‘She loves you.’ Empress Sipwo

I can't tell sipwo and suzu apart still

uncle

Sipwo is suzu mom?

another half, which I possess.

Bertethnet tween wouldnt know all this?

the figure released her. Leave now, and you will reach me in time.

This not ur sis bruv

Bring us the sum of all your dreams, so we may win the battle to come. The

He could no more convince Einlek to hide than he could tuck the midnight sun beneath the sea.

Norther—’ ‘I don’t care if you’re going through the Womb of Fire,’ Thrit told him, eyes flashing.

Swoon

Had they looked back, they would have seen a small Inysh ship on the horizon, fighting against the Ashen Sea to reach the smoking shore.

Nooo tunuva?

All she could imagine was the

sort of world her successor would inherit, dead and scorched and grey.

Same

cut his own throat.’

Y tho

though she was sometimes filmed with ice.

Typo ?

Her womb was not her own – but her hair, surely that could still be hers, surely.

There could be no fires in such a cave, so her ladies crowded into the bed, for warmth – all three of them, their arms around each other, around her.

Friend cuddles are cute

They will hold you as well, she told her belly. You will never be alone, even if the world is bleak.

:' )

She dared not reach for her mirror sister – her ladies would feel the chill on her skin.

That which is like a thing will always call to it, Furtia replied, but so can that which is unlike a thing. She banked a little. Its voice will be the loudest, the voice of the unknown.

She tell u not to trust?

You trust people, because you want to see the good in them. Even me, in spite of yourself.’

except she never wanted to stop looking at her. In this glow, she was painted in moonlight.

Wulf blinked away a sudden wash of memories. ‘Saint’s bones,’ Thrit said, voice fainter than its wont. ‘Wulf – I think that could be a dragon.’ And then, with

Looking at her, touching her, Dumai knew.

Is canthe that first barethnet witch? That y she lok like glorian?

There was no recognition or love in those eyes, none of the tenderness of their dreaming.

Bc it cantheee

I am one of them, came a whisper in her mind.

Do not think that you can hide it for ever. Only one of us will live that long.

Dont trust herrr omg tunava kissed tjis bish?

As soon as she pulled him to safety, he crumpled into her, shaking all over, and slowly he opened his brown eyes. Tunuva stared into them, and he stared back. She had seen those eyes in mirrors for half a century. She had seen his face in a dream of bees.

caparison,

I cant not read caprisun

Only one of us will live that long.

Knew it wasnt glorian

I am of the star, and so is this – and so are you.

Wulf glimpsed a sweet and unexpected future, far away. Then he turned around and walked towards his past.

You will take nothing more from me.

Fucking canthe

One day, she might think of the betrayal and not weep.

But it wasnt glorian and now glan has no one ):