เข้าสู่ระบบOn 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
Xandra“Oh,” Finn half-gasps.Things have been tense between us since he learned just how much time I’m supposed to be spending in bed, nearly two weeks ago now, but I still take his hand. “You will get used to the feeling, I promise.”He screws up his face as Vedran dances fingers through the air.
Xandra“Through the river!” I hiss, leaning low over Finn’s back, though that makes the high grass whip across my face.I don’t know how long we’ve been running. The moon has long passed the apex of the sky and is sinking toward morning. Howls echo around us. Dunes hump along the horizon to the sout
Xandra“The symbol of Lord Denidor’s house is lightning,” I grumble as I wedge myself into the Y-shaped branch Finn has picked out for us to watch this meeting from.“All the more reason to be here.” Finn scans the horizon intently. “Since we found the first bark in Zdenko’s room.”The branch squish
Corwyn deserves to die. I whisper a prayer to the Goddess that someone will end him—someone other than Finn. He shouldn’t muffle the taste of grief with revenge when I am gone.“I need you to breathe.” Hana grabs my chin, yanking my attention back to the agony of the present.I gasp in a breath. My







