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“But you and I are exactly that, Violence.
“Hold on. Is Andarna yours?”
“Don’t be ridiculous.” Sgaeyl blows out a blast of air that ruffles Xaden’s hair. “Do you think I’d let my offspring bond while still feathered?”
“Her parents passed before hatching,” Tairn answers.
“A mind reader is a capital offense. You know that.”
Most feathertail gifts disappear with maturity when they begin to channel.”
Rare abilities, when kept secret, are the most valuable form of currency we possess.”
The rest of our lives depend on it.”
Mairi
He lifts his hands, as though ready to cup my face. “Let me see.”
“Touch me without permission, and you’ll spend the rest of your life regretting it.”
The guy is constantly whittling with that smaller knife of his.
“You actually know him, don’t you?”
he knew how to sign,
“Right. Because you wanted to be a scribe when you grew up.”
I feel sarcasm here. Was she always wanting to be a scribe? Truly?
“How did you know that?”
Furthering my idea that she has no memory of the recent past….
“Riorson and I were fostered at the same estate after the apostasy,”
his mother had broken faith with Navarre.
“It’s hard to live with a man who was executed on the same day as my mother.”
Isaac Mairi,
His eyes flare.
“Then I was sent to Tirvainne to be fostered by Duke Lindell,
“We’re all riders. It was part of the deal. We’re allowed to live, allowed a chance to prove our loyalty, but only if we make it through the Riders Quadrant.”
how much of it she knows,
one hundred and seven of us, all who carry rebellion relics.”
“Riorson taught me to fight during the years he was at Tirvainne.”
“You are slightly stuck with him for…” He makes a face. “Well, forever.”
All I can say is that your survival is essential to Riorson’s, and I owe him everything. Everything.”
southern border?”
supply convoy
community storage in nearby caves was ransacked.
Mountain villages are being torn apart wherever the wards weaken.
Deigh keeps pretty good control of himself,
dragon figurine he’s carving
carving, which looks a lot like his Red Daggertail, Deigh.
his knife hovering over the piece of wood.
He warded your door the morning after the attack.”
“He warded your door,”
“So only you can open it.”
“But if he’s the one who warded it, then he can get in, too, right?”
the shadows beneath the arm of my desk lift the instrument like an offering.
He’s locked in conversation with Garrick, not paying me a speck of attention. Except, apparently, he is.
Ok but this is so hot, RIGHT?!
“The front lines are relatively quiet today, so we’re going to take this opportunity to dissect the Battle of Gianfar.”
mage lights rise to the Cliffs of Dralor that separate Tyrrendor, lifting the entire province thousands of feet above the rest of the Continent, before shining brightest on the ancient stronghold along the southern border.
“This battle was pivotal to the unification of Navarre, and though it happened more than six centuries ago, there are important lessons that still impact our flight formations to this day.”
“It was one of the final battles where gryphons and dragons actually worked alongside each other to annihilate the army of the Barrens,”
“Was that scroll marked classified?”
“No,” I respond just as quietly. “But maybe I missed it?” The battle map doesn’t even show activity near that mountain range.
“That has to be it. You missed it.”
Our clearance isn’t high enough, or maybe they haven’t finished gathering all the information needed
