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don’t need the prohibited power of mind reading to know exactly what she sees.
prohibited? 🤨
“Are you calling me weak?” “No.” Mira squeezes my hand. “Just…fragile.”
“Why would I waste my energy killing you when the parapet will do it for me?” A wicked smile curves his lips. “Your turn.”
Might be one of the best first chapters i have read! Straight into the drama, lots of info about the world and characters, and feels unique
I need to get my right foot under me, the one that has better traction, but one wrong move and I’ll find out just how cold that river is beneath me. You’ll be dead on impact. “I’m coming for you, Sorrengail!”
How are my hands sweating 45 pages into a book
If they didn’t need us puny humans to develop signet abilities from bonding and weave the protective wards they power around Navarre, I’m pretty sure they’d eat us all and be done.
excited to learn about this magic system
My heart threatens to beat out of my chest, and I absolutely agree with it, because I’d like to run, too.
Love this line
My mother can wield the power of storms.
....don't be suspicious...don't be suspicious
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“You learn what they teach you,” Xaden says to the first-year, his voice taking a hard edge. “Keep what you know but recite whatever they tell you to.”
Like it's lies?????
“I told you already, the youngest Sorrengail is mine, and I’ll handle her when the time is right.”
The powder is nearly white, nearly invisible as I take my place in the serving line an hour later, and completely undetectable as I sprinkle it over Oren Seifert’s scrambled eggs when he approaches.
this bitchhhh LOL
Dain’s hands pause on my skin. “Because you know what his way is?” The guilt of keeping Xaden’s secret makes my stomach drop.
Isn’t there a chance, no matter how small, that I might just be enough to make it through Threshing? That I might just belong here?
Every day I let you live, I get to convince myself that there’s still a part of me that’s a decent person.
“That’s different.” His hand squeezes mine, and I can feel the tension in his fingers, his arm. “I’m a rider.” “Well, maybe I am, too,” I whisper
My scalp prickles
“You can’t interfere!” Tynan shouts at Xaden, but I don’t dare look away from my opponent long enough to see how the wingleader reacts. “No, but I can narrate,” Xaden retorts.
And rules be damned, he steps forward as though he intends to stop Tynan from killing me.
Oh. Shit. I hadn’t spoken those words. I’d thought them. He can read my thoughts. “See? Smartest of your year.” So much for privacy. “You’ll never be alone again.”
Andarnaurram,” I whisper. Her eyes fly wide. “Both dragons?” she squawks. I nod. And all hell breaks loose.
“Stay close to the wingleader until we return,” Tairn orders. Surely he meant to say squad leader. “You heard what I said.”
“They’re a mated pair, Tairn and Sgaeyl. The strongest bonded pair in centuries.”
Xaden scoffs. Dain immediately jerks his head toward mine. “It would have killed me to watch something happen to you, Vi, but the rules—” “It’s all right,” I force out, touching his shoulder, but it isn’t.
even searched the catalog for wyvern—I think that’s what you said—but there’s nothing.”
like someone erased it?
“Annoys you?” Tairn chuckles above me, the sound like a chuffing cat. “Is that what you call it when your heart rate—” “Don’t even start with me.”
“Mine!” Andarna screams. Skin-prickling energy zings down my spine, then rushes to my fingertips and toes, and the next breath I take is in total, complete silence.
STOP TIME??!
I’m alive. I’m alive. I’m alive. I repeat the mantra in my head as Xaden wipes the blood from my dagger on the back of Oren’s tunic. “Yes. You’re alive.” Xaden
“Let me guess, and you’ll know if I tell?” “Yes.” Another smirk appears, and I look away before he can catch me staring.
wait what was this alluding to!!!!
every rider slams their hands over their ears as Claidh mourns.
WHY AM I SO SAD
I fumble my quill and it falls to the ground, but before I can lean over, the shadows beneath the arm of my desk lift the instrument like an offering. I pluck it out of the shadows and look back at Xaden. He’s locked in conversation with Garrick, not paying me a speck of attention. Except, apparently, he is.
“It was one of the final battles where gryphons and dragons actually worked alongside each other to annihilate the army of the Barrens,” the second-year continues.
maybe in the future thooooo
