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Kylorian   When I stepped into headquarters, I was almost immediately ambushed by Larkspur, one of my subordinates. I lifted a finger in her face before she could speak. “You know how this goes,” I said. “A quarter mark. Whatever it is can wait for a quarte...

Rhylix   The tavern that Ren and Raimie had chosen for tonight’s gathering was loud and boisterous, a complete change from our quiet meals in the palace’s confines, but I supposed this change made sense. I’d caught my friend’s recent restlessness, a sign tha...

Ring   To enter the ballroom was to step into a different time and a beautifully exotic place. The palace staff had outdone themselves with the decorations this year. One need only compare their efforts to the foreigners’ contribution to see the care and att...

Ring   With the royals' announcement over, the musicians in their corner resumed the piece that they’d set aside for the king’s speech, and people drifted onto the dance floor. I perched on a table beside an ice sculpture, happy to pick at a nearby roast whi...

Ring On drawing even with me, Oswin asked, “You don’t really think you need a sanction, do you?” “No, but I couldn’t come up with a better way to separate you from Little. You two would have argued all night if I hadn’t intervened,” I said. “Plus, the kid’...

Raimie A picture of strife burned in my mind. The battlefield stretched beyond what I could see while the combatants on all sides fought with their faces twisted in anger or desperation. Most of them, I didn’t know, but a precious few were incredibly famili...

Elliot,   I’ll start this part of my story with a qualifier, love. It will be… strange. I’m hesitant to record it because when I consider this part of my life, it’s as if I’m remembering it for the first time. I’m having a hard time with believing any of it...

I thought I’d find a picture of ferocity in Kilkeid. I thought I’d see a palisade around it with each of its log’s ends sharpened into a stake. I thought heads and skulls would be spiked on these with skeletons left dangling from them. I thought gibbets, hangi...

Kylorian   I looked down at the woman on the ground in front of me, who was struggling to breathe through the hole I’d put in her lung, and everything in me screamed white-hot pain and lurched- The world is fuzz. I’m floating… somewhere. In the back of my...

Raimie   Three days after my fight with Ren, the primeancer students and I stood on Nephiron’s dock. The journey to reach this place would normally have taken weeks, but fortunately, my companions and I were not normal people. On our trip, Ele had helped to ...

Raimie   I should be terrified. I should be running as fast as Ele would carry me away from this place, but all I was in this moment, finally meeting my enemy, was cold. And so was Nylion. So, I drew on Ele, unsheathed Silverblade, and flashed across the d...

Raimie I trudged into the fire’s vicinity. Retrieving strips of salted pork—a traveler’s standard fare—from an abandoned pack, I tossed some to Doldimar before settling opposite him. “How in the void have you gotten Daevetch primeancers to work with the El...

Rhylix   ‘This is impossible.’ As I dazedly wandered down the streets of the city I’d once called home, this was the only thought that occupied my mind. The structural damage from Doldimar’s first successful military campaign had been erased with no half-co...

Rhylix   When I woke up surrounded by Ele, all I could do was lie still and stunned. “Huh,” I grunted. “What a total fuck up, Gaelen.” I shot upright, but it wasn’t because of the man speaking to me. I searched for and found the never-ending Daevetch land...

Seer Drena, I thought you might like to learn where I am right now, although let’s be honest. You probably already know it. But since we’ve been pretending you can’t see the future for years now, I’ll tell you anyway. I’m in Elisk, waiting for the end. Don’...

Raimie   “We’re going to die here, aren’t we?” Stone, intruding on all sides, muffled my question. My words sounded as if they’d come through thick cloth until they bumped into one another in my head. Fortunately, Nylion heard me without a problem. “Probab...

King Eledis of Auden 18th of Seventh, 3484 My fears have proven true. The peace is over. My son is dead. 1st of Ninth, 3485 Thirteen months, an entire year, of juggling my secret with resisting Doldimar’s sniping attacks. That’s how long Nebailie gave me...

Eledis   I told you to inspect that gifted horse with a fine-toothed comb! Now, your entire team's diseased, and you're stranded with no rescue in sight. -Unknown   Kaedesa had been acting strangely during her most recent visit to Auden, but her behavior ...

Eledis   Storming into the Ministers’ chamber, I roared, “All right, you lot! What’s so difficult that you couldn’t figure it out on your own?” I’d been so close to happiness with Illasaya, only to have it snatched away at the last moment. It was enough to ...

Kase   As Jhi and I hurried back toward the citadel, Aiko followed us on the rooftops, vigilant for danger. It was unsurprising, then, that she was the first to notice the shift within the song, originating from what we'd left behind. I felt it, of course, a...