ログインOn a whim, I try to roll him over, not expecting the iron cage of his arms to so much as shift. But he flips easily with a soft noise of surprise. I pull back, worried.“Apologies.” He smiles ruefully and taps the bandage on his face—on the side I rolled him to. “I think this will take some getting
“Oh.” I glance at Amval. Cirocco waits by his shoulder, clearly about to demand something similar. All the pressures of life suddenly descend back into place. With Kaloni dead, Amval has no rival for the crown. There’s going to be a coronation and then months of cleaning up what happened here. I’m g
Ingrid“The Goddess’ will is often far more complicated than any of us can guess,” Halit says, blood streaked on her cheek from the arrow she took to the shoulder before fleeing the altar.Laughter ripples through the temple. I know, from my second march up here, that the healthy hold up the wounded
And that is his mistake. The heartbeat he wastes on gloating gives me just enough time to slash at his unprotected throat, tearing through fur and old scar tissue.Blood waterfalls onto me, hot and fast. I wriggle out of the way before he crumples. Dead.Or at least it seems so. My halved vision mak
Amval“She will never be ready to marry my brother!” I shout as I storm into the packed temple, a sword lifted high above my head and a trail of allies collected from every corner of the palace behind me.Gasps ripple through the crowd, buoying my name forward. Ingrid turns, her jaw falling slack. T
I suck in a breath through my gritted teeth as Halit intones about the complexities of fate, how perhaps Amval dying was all part of Her cosmic plan for Cirocco and I to end up together. Maybe it was part of Her cosmic plan for me to punch a holy woman in the mouth.No. Joli is counting on me. Light
Denial bubbles behind my lips—but it’s empty. Mother and Father would have thought that the Pony was a, well, gruesome reminder of what happened to our kingdom. They wouldn’t have forbidden Cirocco, just asked in their quiet way why he really felt he needed to come here, and that would have been eno
AmvalI unfasten a buckle, working quietly alongside Mesut. He doesn’t even look at me, but I know now that he notices. I should have realized all along.“Sash?” Ingrid yells.I jerk back.“Your girl?” Mesut asks with a sly smile.I shake my head, praying he didn’t recognize her voice. That no one r
By all the stars, Astralis is involved in this.“Lady Evangeline,” Corwyn says, disdain grating through his polite demeanor, “you have a tea in half an hour.”“Oh, of course. Apologies.” She nods to me. “Kael here makes sure I don’t leave my head behind because I’m too busy chatting.”I rip my gaze
AmvalMy heart hammers. The sun beats down on me, drenching my brow in sweat. People are everywhere, dressed in finery and uniforms alike. I have to find her. I can’t be too late.I spent half of last night awake, trying to figure out how to convince Ingrid I believed her without abandoning my belie







