Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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Read between June 23 - June 26, 2024
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He’s tall, with windblown black hair and dark brows. The line of his jaw is strong and covered by warm tawny skin and dark stubble, and when he folds his arms across his torso, the muscles in his chest and arms ripple, moving in a way that makes me swallow. And his eyes… His eyes are the shade of gold-flecked onyx. The contrast is startling, jaw-dropping even—everything about him is. His features are so harsh that they look carved, and yet they’re astonishingly perfect, like an artist worked a lifetime sculpting him, and at least a year of that was spent on his mouth. He’s the most exquisite ...more
Bailey
okay slay sexy tall man
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Dylan is dead.
Bailey
rip
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“You’re dead, Sorrengail, and I’m going to be the one to kill you.”
Bailey
this bro crazy as hell
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“And you’re going to die if we don’t find you a way out of here.”
Bailey
shut up dain
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“I’m not saying you didn’t just kick absolute ass by getting here, Vi. But you have to leave. You’ll break the first time they put you in the sparring ring, and that’s before the dragons sense that you’re…”
Bailey
ughhhhhhh
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A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead.
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Dain.
Bailey
brother eughhhhh
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You’re lucky I didn’t shove you into Captain Fitzgibbons’s hands this morning
Bailey
dain stfu
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I’m still Dain, and this time next year, you will still be Violet. We will still be us.”
Bailey
okay sure jan
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Ridoc is easy to remember—he cracked wise-ass comments all through history.
Bailey
we stan
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“Which is why we have to use this opportunity to get you out!”
Bailey
Dain shut upppppp
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Beautiful. Fucking. Asshole.
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“The right way isn’t the only way. Figure it out.”
Bailey
foreshadowing hehe
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“You’re leaking.” His gaze drops pointedly to my hands. Where blood is dripping from my fingertips.
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“You’re making us look bad. Stop it.”
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“Of course I do—” “Then you have to choose Andarna.” He nods as if his decree equals a decision made. “The gold one is the safest choice of the two.”
Bailey
I really hate this mf
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“Oh.” Yeah, that definitely isn’t what I’m saying. “And you know how hard I’ve worked to be a squad leader. I’m determined to be a wingleader next year, and as much as you mean to me…” He shakes his head. Oh. This is all about politics for him.
Bailey
This mf soooo annoying jesus
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“It’s a huge problem, because he can’t channel—” “His full powers?” I ask as we make it out of the field, heading toward the steps that descend next to the Gauntlet. “I know that. Why do you think I’m up there asking him to loosen up?”
Bailey
Mansplaining ass hoe
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“You’re all fucking dead.” His voice is eerily calm and all the scarier for it. Every head in the room turns. “Riorson!” Oren’s dagger clatters to the floor. “You think surrendering will save you?”
Bailey
Get 'em Xaddyyyyy
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“No. I was a child at some point.”
Bailey
Oh he's funny
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“You never considered that it was you I couldn’t stay away from?”
Bailey
GIGGLING & KICKING MY FEET MR. RIORSON
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“You can ride me when the flesh rots off my bones, wingleader.”
Bailey
we love sassy tairn
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“Is that a saddle?”
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“No, it’s a collar,” Tairn snips, snapping his teeth together.
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“Should I get the wingleader?”
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There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, Violence.”
Bailey
i think i’m in love