Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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Started reading November 16, 2025
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venin,
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“Just don’t try to channel power without being a bonded rider and red-eyed monsters won’t hide under your bed, waiting to snatch you away on their two-legged dragons to join their dark army.”
Ariana Scibilia
So this will all be super relevant
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Wear the armor at all times. Keep your daggers on you at all times.” She points to the sheaths down her thighs.
Ariana Scibilia
So im guessing she is not going to do this to her own dramatic peril?
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“There’s no such thing as cheating once you climb the turret. There’s only survival and death.”
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“Just not the second- or third-years.”
Ariana Scibilia
So im guessing second AND third years will fall in love with her. Are we going enemies to lovers here?
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a woman sobs as her partner rips her away from a young man,
Ariana Scibilia
Future love interest. This is probably done to humanize him early. Antagonistic personality?
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“Stay the hell away from Xaden Riorson.”
Ariana Scibilia
They fuck right?
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“He’s a third-year, and he will kill you the second he finds out who you are.”
Ariana Scibilia
They're definitely banging
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“Stay. Away. From. Him.” “Noted.” I nod.
Ariana Scibilia
Well at this point even *I* have to fuck him.
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blatantly ignoring Mira’s earlier suggestion
Ariana Scibilia
And now we hve precendent. Grab the popcorn. I hope Xaden is hot.
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more leniency with the uniform policy,”
Ariana Scibilia
This is a weirdly-specific rule
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“She said it would be bad luck to propose before I left, so we’re waiting until graduation.”
Ariana Scibilia
He's dead before the end of this book, probably before the end of the entrance exam/Threshing
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“This one here is a breeze away from the bottom of the ravine.”
Ariana Scibilia
These two will also bang **edit: this one aged like milk!!**
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Your mind already knows the answer, so just calm down and let it remember. That’s what Dad always told me. I need something to keep
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“It will be my pleasure to help you out.”
Ariana Scibilia
He is comically evil and clearly unstable. He should be put down immediately. He will live three times as long as he needs to.
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because it’s Dain. Dain, whom I’ve known since we were five and six. Dain, whose father is one of my mother’s most trusted advisers. Dain, who held me together when Mira left for the Riders Quadrant and again when Brennan died.
Ariana Scibilia
I hope he doesn't turn traitor. Likely already is.
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Anger bristles up my spine, and my gaze narrows on him.
Ariana Scibilia
Oh girl please don't stay this reactive.
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“Melgren’s dragon gives him the signet ability to see a battle’s outcome before it happens. There’s no beating that, and you can’t be assassinated if you know it’s coming.”
Ariana Scibilia
His death is going to be devastating and by a suspected ally. Xaden to cause the third-act breakup? Jack Barlowe?
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But I will not run. I wouldn’t be standing here if I’d quit every time something seemed impossible to overcome. I will not die today.
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Lingering on what could have been isn’t going to help me survive to see tomorrow’s sunrise.
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Don’t borrow tomorrow’s trouble.