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Grabbing hold of my siblings’ hands, I hauled them to their feet so I could drag them behind me. Our parents’ estate might be far from their House’s training facilities in the capital, but they, as any good Kolb member would, had their own weapons chamber here...

Anthony and Jessica had chosen to get married on the shores of Lake Voxmore instead of in House Kolb’s courtyard, as was custom. Maybe this act of defiance was why Rowan hadn’t been allowed to invite her friends today. Maybe it was why she hadn’t been asked to...

Bay and Veronica looked… well. They looked empty, showing Rowan the most neutral of faces, and that, more than anything else, told her exactly how much trouble she was in. Her moms took a laid-back approach to parenting, especially when it came to her, but Ro...

Kylorian   My brother is dead. For perhaps the millionth time, I cast that thought out into the chaotic swirl of my mind, and once again, it got rejected, tossed out before it had had the chance to settle. As it slipped away from me, I took another pull fro...

Kylorian   I kept going until I reached a dense line of familiar trees. This was what finally stopped me, slowly. Reluctantly. Climbing to the ground, I unhitched both horses from the cart, slapping one on the rump to get her galloping through the grass. Ma...

Kylorian   Leading the horse closer to the center of the clearing, I dropped her reins and thanked Alouin that she stayed still as I untied the bundle from behind her saddle. Once it was in my arms, I went to where sunlight was caressing the ground nearby an...

Raimie As Nylion fuzzed over, I started asking, What are you talking—" “—about?” I sleepily finished. I blinked at the vague outline of Oswin, hovering over me, until he retreated. “I’m sorry to wake you, sir,” he said, “but I’ve stumbled into one of tho...

Raimie   Turning on Oswin, Queen Kaedesa grinned at him with an almost feral edge to it. “Middle! How good to see you!” she said. “You had me worried when you disappeared from my court without warning.” Bowing, Oswin said, “Your Majesty.” And nothing more...

Raimie “That was stupid,” Nylion said. With his hands on his hips, he leaned over me, smirking. “You cleansed, what? Five, six hundred Kiraak? All in the space of twelve hours,” he continued. “Do you know how much Daevetch you handled in that time? Conseq...

Eledis Caution is an incredible asset in a monarch’s arsenal, but when situations call for decisive action, it should be tossed to the wind, lest your people perish due to your cowardice.-Sephicus, Philosopher King of Lyzencroft The news of Raimie’s vict...

Raimie “Somebody help me restrain him!” With Oswin’s voice roaring through the black of my dreams, I grudgingly moved toward it. “I’ll hold you all responsible if he hurts himself during the next fit!” When I opened my eyes, Oswin’s face filled my view. ...

Raimie   Daira’s streets race beneath my feet as I flee from my pursuer. Beyond, Nylion urges me to move faster, to sprint on and on and on. The sea wall prevents my escape. Frantically, I search for somewhere to hide, an obstacle to slip through, or someth...

Raimie   The five days after the return of my memories followed in an unchanging sequence. Every morning, Nylion was there, opening his eyes at the same time as me and giving me a small smile on coming fully awake, and somehow, our hands had found a way to c...

Raimie   In the room's threshold, Ren braced one hand against the doorframe while the other kept it from swinging closed. The sight of her nipped my fury at my father in the bud with even Nylion going cold. Had she sprinted all this way to greet me after le...

Eledis   “Laest one fur evening, uld man,” Sigemond told me. His peculiar accent always made it difficult to understand him when I was in this completely sloshed state, but his meaning got pretty clear when he thumped a tankard of ale in front of me, giving...

Raimie   Pins and needles were running rampant over my leg, but still, I wouldn’t shift Ren off of me. I didn’t want to disturb her rest, of course, but I also sincerely liked having her body pressed against mine. Everything about her was soft—her skin, her...

Raimie   How could Ren do this? It made no logical sense for her to say she loved me and then, walk away. She’d said those three, beautiful words, the ones I’d never known I needed to hear. She loved me, and I could do NOTHING about it. Because much as it h...

Ryvolim   Raimie had left for Tiro without me. My friend had promised to stay out of trouble for one day while I fought against an energy drain’s pull, and the kid had run off, sans protection, through one of the most well-traveled regions of Doldimar’s doma...

Raimie   I was getting extremely annoyed by how long it was taking to find my father. I’d expected it might take a while but close to an hour? After so many reliable years, were my tracking skills finally failing me? This wouldn’t bother me so much if I were...

Ryvolim The view while balancing atop Tiro’s concealing lattice was, as always, terrifying, much too far above solid ground as it was. I refused to look down as I crossed the length of the beam that Raimie had chosen for his perch.  Finding my friend had t...