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dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead.
“Mira, Violet deals with more pain before lunch than you do in an entire week. If any of my children is capable of surviving the Riders Quadrant, it’s her.”
Are you that eager to bury another child?”
Mom’s storm-wielding signet power she channels through her dragon, Aimsir.
Mom tolerates me and respects Mira, but she loved Brennan.
I’m pretty quick with daggers, though.”
This is the woman who survived all three years with only one scar, the one her own dragon gave her during Threshing.
Decide, Violet. Are you going to die a scribe? Or live as a rider?”
I look like a rider. I still feel like a scribe.
“You’re the smartest woman I know. Don’t forget that. Your brain is your best weapon. Outsmart them, Violet.
“I’m not going to die today.”
“I love you, Violet. Remember everything I’ve told you. Don’t become another name on the death roll.” Her voice shakes, and I wrap my arms around her, squeezing tight.
“Find Dain Aetos,” Mira tells me as we cross through the courtyard, heading for the open gate.
we rider candidates will climb
before the terror owns you.”
don’t seek friendships in there, Violet. Forge alliances.”
the first rule of living at Basgiath is never question a dragon.
“Stay the hell away from Xaden Riorson.”
“His father was the Great Betrayer. He led the rebellion,”
“All the children of the leaders were conscripted as punishment for their parents’ crimes,”
“Stay. Away. From. Him.”
“They gave you the Order of the Talon for taking out that battery behind enemy lines.”
“I’m Rhiannon Matthias, by the way.”
blatantly ignoring Mira’s earlier suggestion that I avoid friendships and only forge alliances.
“I mean, who wouldn’t want to ride a dragon?” Me. Not that it doesn’t sound fun in theory. It does. It’s just the abhorrent odds of surviving to graduation that sour my stomach.
“Better pay, more leniency with the uniform policy,”
The only rules that apply to riders are the ones I’ve memorized from the Codex.
get it now—why Mira warned me not to make friends.
Your mind already knows the answer, so just calm down and let it remember
“Not surprised, with that maneuver,” the woman says, holding a pen like Mom uses over the roll. It might be the nicest compliment I’ve ever been given.
“You’re dead, Sorrengail, and I’m going to be the one to kill you.”
“Take a look at your squad. These are the only people guaranteed by Codex not to kill you. But just because they can’t end your life doesn’t mean others won’t. You want a dragon? Earn one.”
Once bonded, riders can’t live without their dragons, but most dragons can live just fine after us.
Don’t borrow tomorrow’s trouble.
“Sgaeyl is a Blue Daggertail, and she’s…vicious.”
even most dragons steer clear of Sgaeyl.”
No child should watch their parent put to death.
You need more than strength and courage to be a good rider.”
Battle Brief is for fluid situations. In this class, we want you to learn which questions to ask so all of you have a chance at coming home alive.”
the minute you let emotion enter a fight, you’ve already lost.
You have to live, because Violet is watching. You can’t let her see you fall.
I don’t want to find a single thing about Xaden Riorson admirable, and yet here he is, being all annoyingly admirable.
“When do we get to kill Violet Sorrengail?” a guy toward the back asks.
“I told you already, the youngest Sorrengail is mine, and I’ll handle her when the time is right.”
My short-lived admiration of Xaden is over.
“Don’t forget her brother was Brennan Sorrengail,”
“She has just as much reason to hate us as we do her.”
“Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable, but you’re
really a violent little thing, aren’t you?”
“And not all strength is physical,
