Chapter 8
CHAPTER 8 Blackness greeted Aelin as she rose to consciousness. Tight, contained blackness. A shift of her elbows had them digging into the sides of the box, chains reverberating through the small space. Her bare feet could graze the end if she wriggled slightly. She lifted her bound hands to the solid wall of iron […]
Chapter no 12
Reshmina’s eyes flashed back and forth between Pasoon and the Taliban fighters on the ridge. The Taliban had to have seen her brother waving his arms. But they weren’t going to come down the mountain to him. He was going to have to go up to them. Pasoon put his hands down and started to […]
Chapter 7
CHAPTER 7 Morath. The final key was at Morath. The knowledge hung over Dorian through the night, keeping him from sleep. When he did doze, he awoke with a hand at his neck, grasping for a collar that was not there. He had to find some way to go. Some way to reach it. Since […]
Chapter no 11
Brandon stood on the broken edge of the World Trade Center, looking straight out into the bright blue September sky. Strong winds whipped his hair around his face, and burning papers fluttered down from somewhere above him. Exposed electric wires sparked in the sheared-off walls. Brandon backed up against the stairwell door, his breath hitching […]
Chapter 6
CHAPTER 6 The winter winds off the rough waves had chilled Chaol Westfall from the moment he’d emerged from his quarters belowdecks. Even with his thick blue cloak, the damp cold seeped into his bones, and now, as he scanned the water, it seemed the heavy cloud cover wasn’t likely to break anytime soon. Winter […]
Chapter no 10
Reshmina paused at the top of a ridge to look out at the mountains that swept up through Afghanistan and into China. The enormous mountains always humbled her. It was easy to see only the village you lived in and not the wider world if you never stopped to look up. What Reshmina didn’t see […]
Chapter 5
CHAPTER 5 The commander in the alley had claimed his latest orders had been dispatched from Doranelle. None of them knew whether to believe him. Sitting around a tiny fire in a dusty field on the outskirts of a ramshackle city, the blood long since washed from his hands, Lorcan Salvaterre again mulled over the […]
Chapter no 9
Brandon stopped to catch his breath. The narrow stairwell was well lit, with white walls and gray steps outlined in what looked like glow-in-the-dark paint. Railings ran down both sides, and at each floor there was a metal door and a small sign telling you where you were. This was Stairwell A, and right now […]
Chapter 4
CHAPTER 4 “This camp has been abandoned for months.” Manon turned from the snow-crusted cliff where she’d been monitoring the western edge of the White Fang Mountains. Toward the Wastes. Asterin remained crouched over the half- buried remnants of a fire pit, the shaggy goat pelt slung over her shoulders ruffling in the frigid wind. […]
Chapter no 8
Reshmina took a deep breath and made her decision. “I am here,” she told the soldier in English. “I will go and bring my father to help you.” “No, wait,” the soldier said. “Please. Don’t leave me. I can’t see.” He reached out a hand. Reshmina took a step back and shook her head, then […]