Chapter no 48
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT Thunder rattles my bedroom windows the next night as I pore over the pages of the latest book Tecarus sent, letting my hair dry. He hasn’t forgotten our deal even now that he’s king, and I’m not giving up on Xaden, especially when it’s clear he hasn’t given up on himself. The answer […]
Chapter no 59
CHAPTER 59 Concealed behind the tree, I took in my surroundings. I was exhausted, but … I could winnow. I could winnow and be gone. The ash arrows they’d put into the Suriel, however … I met its eyes as it lay there, bleeding out on the moss. The same ash arrows that had brought […]
Chapter no 47
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN “You’re sure you only want me here the first time you try this?” I ask Sawyer two days later as we stand in the middle of the flight field with Tairn, Andarna, and Sliseag at four thirty a.m. “I’m not exactly the best one to catch you if this goes poorly.” He tightens […]
Chapter no 58
CHAPTER 58 I turned, but did not sheath my blade across my back. The Suriel was standing a few feet away, clad not in the cloak I had given it months ago, but a different one—heavier and darker, the fabric already torn and shredded. As if the wind it traveled on had ripped through it […]
Chapter no 46
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX Three weeks later, I can barely lift my arms as our squad walks back from Signet Sparring. Gods, I hate when Carr rotates in to teach. Countless muscles in my body ache, and there’s a permanent knot between my shoulder blades thanks to the work Felix has me doing. Every single second that […]
Chapter no 57
CHAPTER 57 “Absolutely not,” Mor said when I pulled her a few feet away from Nesta, the din of battle and rain drowning out our voices. “Absolutely not.” I jerked my head toward the valley below. “Go join them. You’re wasted here. They need you.” It was true. “Cassian and Az need you to push […]
Chapter no 45
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE Ihang in the air, suspended by an invisible hand around my throat as lightning strikes in the distance. Fear pumps through my veins, but the harder I fight, the narrower my windpipe becomes, the harder it is to draw breath. “Quit fighting it,” the Sage orders. “Quit fighting me.” You’re dead. This isn’t […]
Chapter no 56
CHAPTER 56 Jurian was right. We’d seen inside his head, yet we’d still doubted. Still wondered if we’d arrive to find Hybern had changed their position, or attacked elsewhere. But Hybern’s horde was precisely where Jurian claimed they’d be. And as the Illyrian army swept for them while they marched over the Spring border and […]
Chapter no 44
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR Leadership separates us completely after we put our things in our rooms, then questions us for twelve hours each with scribes. When Aetos accidentally lets slip his annoyance that King Tauri is so grateful to have Aaric back that he’s forbidden any form of punishment, the emotional relief results in an immediate sense […]
Chapter no 55
CHAPTER 55 “I’m too old for these sorts of surprises,” Mor groused as the war-tent groaned in the howling mountain wind at the northern border of the Winter Court, the Illyrian army settling down for the night. To wait for the attack tomorrow. They’d flown all day, the location remote enough to keep even an […]