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I’m going to break his knee if I ever see him again. It should be him on this hull. I’d tell him to his face, but he took the only relic in the base’s hangar that could still fly and stole off with Aurae, his Pink accomplice, while I slept.
?!?!?!?
The sun has raged for 4.6 billion years. I have raged for sixteen. No surprise, the sun has more fuel to spare.
My heart is buried with my army in those sands. But my body trudges on, as it does, no matter the ruin it leaves in its wake.
Story of his life
Daily, the bellicose woman grumbles that she would have preferred the honorable suicide she intended to commit in Heliopolis to the daily monotony of shift management.
I Love her truly
I have seen things a Red miner was never meant to see—unspeakable horrors, impossible beauty. Things that would make the tail of particles seem commonplace. But today I feel a little different. A little more willing to see there’s beauty here on this stepping stone.
Okayyyy softie <333333
The others, as bald as I am, worry to either side. About their own loves. Homes. Lost time. Lost worlds. Together, we make a sea of worry under the dim chemical lights.
“Pack? Two is not a pack, goodman. Two is debris circling a drain.”
Randomized intervals to a floor of point two and a ceiling of four point five G’s.
Fighting in different gravity is craaaazy
A moment later, Virginia’s voice fills the room.
I WILL cry. him lonely :(((((
“Battle stations. Battle stations. Proximity warning. Votum torchShip inbound.”
heyyyyyy daddy cassius
Then Screw bursts into laughter. “I’ll be damned.” Has he finally snapped? Like Orion? Like Sevro?
He cant even be confident in his closest people
I feel a pang of sorrow. Like I’ve been left behind. Outmoded, forgotten.
Old man is out of the loooop
Despite the fact that Cassius is offensively handsome, over seven feet tall, built like a highGrav boxer,
Zaddddyyyy
“It’s Sevro. He’s not dead. Worse, in fact. A sordid affair. He’s been sold at a high-society Syndicate auction.”
Wtfffff
“Kavax told me to bring you home. Virginia is waiting for her Imperator…and her husband.”
Trust me when I tell you, the Raa do not raise creatures without fangs.
Ok she is iconic
He’s not used to being held to the fire by a Pink, much less a Pink he’s so obviously in love with, one who is so obviously not in love with him.
Obsessed
They’re here because they love me, but I see the anger in their eyes. It’s an anger that’s always been reserved for the enemy.
At the umbilical, I turn back to my men as Cassius and Aurae disappear inside. I look back at my friends, my soldiers with whom I’ve suffered so much, and raise my fist. “Hail libertas!” Only my echo answers.
WOw
There the Lightbringer, beset by swarms of construction skiffs, looms like a mountain.
Name dropped
“Would a plaything smuggle legions to the Minotaur?”
Rip darrow
captain of the Lightbringer.
Book 3 was named after darrows ship, this one after lysanders....What Does It All Mean
What do you like, and don’t say peace.” “Power,” I reply
What happened to the old lysandder :(
“It seems we’ve both had our inheritance stolen by an usurper. If only there was a way to help one another…”
With Cassius armored and ready beside me, I feel infused with the luck of House Mars, sixteen again and preparing to steal the enemy standard.
He drops the human towel.
Crazy sentence
More than half the Greens partake in sexual simulations and are fit with codpieces to catch the byproduct of their pleasure.
Relax
Get your Goblin.”
Please im begging
“Darrow, Darrow, Darrow. Truly you are divine. For you have answered my prayers. Welcome to the Dockyards of the Minotaur. Welcome to your doom.”
Fuck offff dude
Kyber wanders along behind, innocuous, but always searching for danger.
Why does he keep explicitly saying this
I wonder if she still has time to visit her stables on Mars, or if like me, this war has swallowed her up.
Lysander??????
You ask me to risk my life for you, your claim on the Morning Chair, when all know the odds against that. This is by far the safer sport!”
Lollll
He may be the only person I desperately want to like me for no reason other than I find him honorable, admirable, and utterly immune to everything—charm, flattery, bribery, or any of the devices employed so often in the Core—everything, that is, save merit.
is time to end this. I would ask you to relay that, but I hear you don’t share her confidences, only her bed.”
Tea
“There is a sickness here in the Core for which the only cure is quarantine. We should not be here. But we are. And when we leave, I will burn the bridge behind us.” So much for the unity I always dreamt of.
Get rekd lysander
I smile. “There’s news from Apollonius. News you’ll never believe.”
Im gonna throw up
“Roast beef? I had to suck water from a rusted pipe, and no, that’s not a euphemism.”
Still, it would take an ally to swell his numbers like this. One name stands apart.
Ok smartieeeee
Gratitude, foe, for this! The ultimate honor between peers—a conversation in the language we both have mastered. Violence. Surely there can be no greater distillation of all our mutual respect, animus, and quality.”
I nod, receiving the respect as Cassius sinks deeper into his nearly existential confusion at our interaction.
Lmaooooo
Lucifer himself when he stood afore the fresh-fallen legions of hell did not surpass my oration. It is you who disappoint me. Bringing yourself to me in such a feeble state. Ungrateful for this chance I give you.”
This man is insane i fucking love it. Aura levels through the roof
“Little Bellona, still chirping like a bird in heat. I have fond memories of my days with Tharsus and Karnus, memories you despoil. Always nipping at our heels with that dented chin to the Pearl clubs, weren’t you? Gobbling up the debris of our debauchery. How Karnus despised you and your freeloading. As I told you then, a shining name does not entitle you to never pay for the Pinks, Cassius.” “They made you pay?” Cassius asks.
I am giggling
platter. It is our atomic. Apollonius smiles at me. “I know you, Darrow, like I know my violin.
Ughhhhhh
the news of Sevro’s death
This simply wouldnt be how they kill sevro
Shit Escalates
Lol nice
“He had a bitemark on his cheek.”
Not that being the mark of sevro hahaaah
Dictator’s
Why did they change i to dictator instead of sovereign lol she is crazy
“Bequeath them hell, of course.” The officer frowns at Vorkian, confirming with the archCenturion that the order meant open fire.
PLS LMAO
Venus is the planet of love. What is Mars the planet of again?”
His precious scalpel is about to be shoved into a woodchipper along with us peaches.
Why has this book been so sillyyyyy
