Ashen Weald Quotes

“She’d killed him.
Not just killed him – she’d never actually considered letting him live once the fight had begun. She knew he would never have backed down to her or any of the taiga gryphons. She’d set him up to die, then killed him, and now she would never get the chance to fix their broken friendship. She wanted to curl up in a bunch of fur, feathers, and blood and cry.”
― K. Vale Nagle, Ashen Weald

“Thenca awoke with a yawn and slow-blinked at Deracho. It was good to see him again.
“I heard there was a gryphon making her way up here who shouted at the monitors and sent them running. And I thought to myself: there’s only one gryphon I know who would do that.”
Thenca rolled her eyes. “My brother would have done the same, if he thought to.”
“Yes,” Deracho admitted, “But the messenger also said it was a beautiful gryphon in addition to being talented. That could not have been your brother.”
“He looks the same as me.”
“He does not! His browns are less brown. His blacks are charcoal at best, if we’re being kind. His beak is a little crooked.”
“You’ve never actually met him, have you?” Thenca asked.
Deracho grinned. “Only by reputation: Thenca’s muddy-and-charcoal crooked-beak brother, Urious.”
― K. Vale Nagle, Ashen Weald

“He coughed and wiped something shiny out of his eyes. He’d lost himself for a moment. A minute. An hour. How long had he been doing this?
He thought back to the situation on the rafts, when he was killing the rangers. It was play and hunting rolled into one, and he wished it had felt like neither. Even now, he didn’t feel like himself, and that feeling was growing.”
― K. Vale Nagle, Ashen Weald