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A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead.
being ignored is the best possible scenario for me.
“There’s no such thing as cheating once you climb the turret. There’s only survival and death.”
“This might sound harsh, but don’t seek friendships in there, Violet. Forge alliances.”
“Stay the hell away from Xaden Riorson.”
“I can’t save everyone, especially not someone who isn’t willing to work to save themselves.”
“In war, people die. It’s not glorious like the bards sing about, either. It’s snapped necks and two-hundred-foot falls. There’s nothing romantic about scorched earth or the scent of sulfur. This”—he gestures back toward the citadel—“isn’t some fable where everyone makes it out alive. It’s hard, cold, uncaring reality. Not everyone here is going to make it home…to
“It’s inevitable that one of us will have to bury the other.”
“They’re a mated pair, Tairn and Sgaeyl. The strongest bonded pair in centuries.”
“Let’s get one thing straight, Dain.” I take a step closer, but the distance between us only widens. “The reason we’ll never be anything more than friends isn’t because of your rules. It’s because you have no faith in me. Even now, when I’ve survived against all odds and bonded not just one dragon but two, you still think I won’t make it. So forgive me, but you’re about to be some of the bullshit that this place cuts away from me.”
“You’re not like them, Violet. That’s not your path.” Dad offers me an apologetic smile, the usual kind that says he sympathizes but there’s nothing he can do, the kind he gives me when Mom makes a choice he doesn’t agree with.
“She should have killed you in the field, but she’s merciful. That’s not a flaw I possess.”
“But you and I are exactly that, Violence. We’re chained. Tethered. You die, I die,
“This isn’t primary school. This is war—and you heard me say it once before, but the ugly truth those not on the front lines choose to forget is there are always body bags in war.”
There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, Violence.”
