Chapter no 63
CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE IMOGEN If chaos were a place, it would be Draithus. Rain beats against the glass of my goggles as Glane climbs toward the three wyvern trying their best to rip Cuir apart. The steep angle of her chosen approach makes it hard as hell to stay seated, but I’m not going to tell […]
Chapter no 74
CHAPTER 74 I gripped my sense of self in the face of the black maw of the Cauldron. Gripped it with everything I had. Amren only said, “I’m sorry I lied to you.” I could not remove my hand. Could not pry my fingers away. I was being shredded apart, slowly, thoroughly. I flung my […]
Chapter no 62
CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO VIOLET Rain splatters against my forehead as Theophanie’s dagger scrapes the skin of my throat, but I hold fast and keep my eyes on her. My mind flips through every possible way to get out of this hold alive, and I settle on the simplest, but it’s a risk. “My friends will continue […]
Chapter no 73
CHAPTER 73 The Cauldron had been nestled in a craggy overlook. The Weaver had done her job well. Key guards and posts were little more than wet, red piles of bone and sinew. And I knew that when I saw her again … she would be even more blindingly beautiful. Amren’s power flared again and […]
Chapter no 61
CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE RHIANNON Imogen. Quinn. Violet. My heart pounds. I don’t know how to protect the pass when we’re down three of our most powerful, battle-hardened squadmates, but failure isn’t an option. Thank Zihnal, the infernal wind stopped. For a moment, I thought we’d all be blown to Cordyn. I inspect what I can of […]
Chapter no 72
CHAPTER 72 The wind whipped away the tears rolling down Nesta’s face at the sight of our father’s ships. At the sight of the ship he’d chosen to sail into battle, for the daughter who had hated him for not fighting for us, who had hated him for our mother dying, for the poverty and […]
Chapter no 60
CHAPTER SIXTY “What’s the issue?” I walk back to the carnage surrounding our dragons. “He does not wake,” Tairn announces, and Cuir lowers his green snout to Teine’s. Oh shit. Fear comes racing back. “We have to get him off this field before Theophanie returns.” Bodhi studies the clouds. “Can Garrick get Teine up the […]
Chapter no 71
CHAPTER 71 I could barely hear, barely think in the wake of the Cauldron’s power. In the wake of the empty, blasted bit of plain where the Carver had been. The sudden cold that shuddered down my spine—as if erasing the tattoo inked upon it. And then the silence—silence in some pocket of my mind […]
Chapter no 59
CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE “Mira!” I scream louder than a dragon’s roar as crimson blood streams from the laceration in my sister’s throat. Everything seems to happen at once, like a group of musicians cued for a performance. “Time to play, Violet.” Theophanie hurls the dagger—at Jack. A sea of gray wings rises in the south, […]
Chapter no 70
CHAPTER 70 “You actually did it,” Amren murmured, gaping as the three immortals slammed into Hybern’s lines, and the screaming began. Bodies fell before them; bodies were left in their wake—some mere husks encased in armor. Drained by the Carver and Stryga. Some fled from what they beheld in Bryaxis—the face of their deepest fears. […]