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Martin returned to the castle after sunrise.All the way back, he expected guards to be waiting at the gates. After stealing the map of Kair and spending the night at a Volgart refuge, it would have been naïve to imagine his father would simply allow him to walk home. Martin was prepared to be order

But he knew men were being sent to Kair.He knew a ritual was being prepared.He knew the essential truth: his father no longer treated Alice’s refusal as the decision of a person. He treated it as an obstacle to be overcome.Martin could have gone to her immediately.He could have found Damian, no

On the other side, Rian kept fighting. Martin could feel the dragon holding onto the bond not with his body or his magic, but with the whole substance of himself, as though his entire existence had wrapped itself around the familiar human presence and refused to let go.“Hold on,” Martin whispered,

They had removed fear, which made a living creature protect itself; irritation, which made it argue; habits; memory of the body; the private desire to speed up, slow down, turn aside.Everything that interfered with absolute obedience had disappeared with the bond.Power remained—pure, immense, stri

The first strike hit the edge of the formation.Blue magic unfolded through the air in a wide arc of water and slammed into a younger dragon’s side. He was thrown toward the cliff, one wing twisting unnaturally, and I expected him to lose altitude.Instead, he corrected.Returned to his former place