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*Isla*

Nightshade's common room has become the safest place in the Academy by accident.

The shutters are closed. A chair is wedged beneath the door handle. Tomas has drawn chalk marks across the window seams to show if anyone tries a ward-listening spell. Lark sits on the floor beside the hearth with three stolen archive books open around her, her damp hair braided badly over one shoulder.

Nobody says the word custody.

It hangs in the room anyway.

I am at the long table with my leg stretc
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  • The crippled omega warrior girl    Comparing injury

    *Isla* Liora steps inside with a basket hooked over one arm and a face like she has just threatened a surgeon. Behind her, Bran leans on a crutch, one arm wrapped hard against his side. He is pale under his freckles and furious about it. "What are you doing out of bed?" I ask. He gives me a look. "What are you doing out of bed?" "I am not the one with a hole in my side." "You were a wolf for the first time yesterday." "Technicality." Liora kicks the door shut behind them. "If either of you starts comparing injuries, I will throw you both down the stairs." Bran catches sight of the papers. His expression shifts. "What happened?" Tomas tells him. Not all at once. Nobody has the strength for that. A sentence here, a clause there. Veyr's harboring order. The trial. The choice that is not a choice. Bran lowers himself carefully into a chair. He avoids looking at me at first. When he does, his face has gone tight. "This is because of me," he says. "No," I answer immediately.

  • The crippled omega warrior girl    Terms of survival

    *Isla* There are eight guards outside Nightshade's barracks. Torven counts them from the window without moving the curtain more than a finger's width. He has taken off his wet outer coat and wrapped a strip of linen around the cut at his temple. The blood has soaked through already. "Two at the front stairs," he says. "Three in the yard. One at the rear passage. Two where they can see both exits." "Comforting," Lark says from the table. "They think we are organized enough to use both." "We are organized enough," Tomas says. "You tried to boil eggs in a kettle yesterday." "It worked." "It smelled like a corpse farting." I sit on the edge of my bed and listen to them bicker because it is better than listening to the guards shift their boots outside. Nightshade's rooms are too small for this many people and too familiar to feel safe. Wet coats hang over chair backs. A pot of tea has gone cold on the hearth. The air smells of old wool, antiseptic from bandages, and the bitter wa

  • The crippled omega warrior girl    The ledger

    *Isla* Nightshade's common room has become the safest place in the Academy by accident. The shutters are closed. A chair is wedged beneath the door handle. Tomas has drawn chalk marks across the window seams to show if anyone tries a ward-listening spell. Lark sits on the floor beside the hearth with three stolen archive books open around her, her damp hair braided badly over one shoulder. Nobody says the word custody. It hangs in the room anyway. I am at the long table with my leg stretched out on a second chair. The brace presses a red groove into my skin above the boot. My body is still weak from the shift, though I have spent the last hour refusing to admit it. The wolf sleeps badly beneath my ribs. Every distant footstep wakes her. Liora has gone to the infirmary to sit with Bran. She said she was checking on him. Then she called the healer a turnip and threatened to bite someone's hand off if they gave him poppy draught without food first. I believe both parts. Cedric i

  • The crippled omega warrior girl    A collar

    *Isla*By midday, the Academy has washed the blood from the east yard and put guards at every gate.They have not washed the smell from me.It sits beneath the sharp herbs the healers rubbed over my skin, beneath the clean linen shirt they gave me when they burned my torn clothes, beneath the leather brace strapped around my left knee. Every breath carries wet stone, warg fur and Caelen's blood.The infirmary window looks over the practice fields. Rain has flattened the grass. Two gray-uniformed guards stand beneath the awning outside, pretending they are there to keep curious trainees away.They do not look at the door.They look at me."You are grinding your teeth," Liora says.I stop.She is sitting backward on a chair beside my bed, arms folded over its back. Someone found her a dry shirt, though her hair is still damp at the ends. Her knuckles are split. There is dried blood under one nostril. She keeps wiping it away like it has personally offended her."I am contemplating bitin

  • The crippled omega warrior girl    No claim

    *Isla*Heat rises into my face. "Do not start looking pleased.""I was not.""Liar.""I was checking whether you were cold.""That is much worse."His mouth nearly shifts i to a smile. There and gone.The rain drums harder against the high window. Outside, boots splash through the alley. Someone tries the door. Caelen is across the room before the latch moves."Occupied," he says.A pause."Fennec," says the captain from the other side. "The Council has issued a temporary order.""Then leave it beneath the door.""This concerns the transformed trainee."Caelen's hand settles against the wood. "Her name is Isla Ulvehjerte."The captain does not answer at once. "She will be examined.""When she agrees.""By Academy law, an unregistered first shift requires supervision.""By Academy law, a conscious trainee may refuse an unapproved procedure."His voice stays level, but I hear the blade under it.The captain lowers his own. "You are overstepping.""Then record it."Boots scrape away.Cae

  • The crippled omega warrior girl    Saying it out loud

    *Isla*The first guard through the yard gate raises his ward-lantern and sees us.Everything stops, and before I can stop it I have changed back to my wolf for.Rain taps on the iron frame of the lantern. Blue light spills over my fur, my blood-dark muzzle, the mud clotted between my claws. The guard is young, he.must be one of the newest graduates. His mouth opens. No sound comes out.Then someone behind him says, "Hold the line."The words carry across the yard with the flat force of a command practiced too often.More lanterns rise. Wet cloaks. Academy gray. Blades left sheathed for now, which is somehow worse. Nobody points a weapon at the dead wargs dragged from the passage mouth. Nobody asks why Nightshade is bleeding.They look at me.My wolf presses against the inside of my mind.Danger, she says.‘I noticed,’ I think back.The answer comes clumsy, more feeling than language. Her attention turns to Caelen at once. He has moved between me and the guards without appearing to mov

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