CROWN OF GLASS AND ASH
“I do not know. Protection. Recognition. A place in the new order she believes is coming. Or something more dangerous. The records speak of the Gift as a capacity that can be trained, strengthened, directed. If she believes the time has come to awaken it in those who still carry the potential, then the throne is not the only target. Every bearer of the old blood becomes a piece on the board she is assembling.”
The fire crackled. Somewhere in the dark beyond the clearing, an owl called once and fell silent. I thought of Kaelan, of the journal locked in the private wing, of the connection that now bound his blood to the same history. If Ysolde’s purpose involved awakening the Gift, then the th