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“I can see it. Tucking you in at night. Pampering you when you were sick. No wonder you turned out the way you did.”
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“And how’s that?”
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James looked back at him with the past in his eyes.
“Sarcean. I remember everything.”
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“You came to me.”
James said, “You asked me to.”
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Chapter Fifty
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“He’s the Dark King,” said Violet.
“And I’m his lieutenant,” said James, “here to fight by his side.”
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Chapter Fifty
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“Darling, I’m not here to kill you.”
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crackled with dark power, a young god crowned in dark glory.
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November 16, 2023 14:55
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“We’ll take it from here,” said Violet’s brother, Tom.
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That’s how badly he wants to stop me. Anharion. Visander. The Lady . . .
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He’d been right, the whole time.
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“Light is not something you can extinguish,” she said. “Even in the darkest night, there is a star.”
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Chapter Forty-Seven
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“But the Dark King is its master,” said James. “And I serve Him, not you.”
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November 16, 2023 14:50
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Chapter Forty-Seven
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The Collar clicked closed.
Try to run.
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Will. He had to get to Will.
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Chapter Forty-Six
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“You’re more to me than a shieldmate,” said Cyprian.
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November 16, 2023 14:47
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“You can’t trust him. All he wants is power. That is what you must remember. He is not your friend. He is the Dark King. He will end your world.”
“I understand,” said Cyprian.
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Chapter Forty-Six
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“Kill me,” said Cyprian. “As soon as I come out. I don’t want to be like my brother.”
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November 16, 2023 14:46
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Chapter Forty-Six
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“But I just got you back,” she said in a small voice, and he gave her a sad half smile.
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November 16, 2023 14:45
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Chapter Forty-Six
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“But he could touch the Corrupted Blade,” said Grace. “He was immune to its corruption. He was immune to the white death.”
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November 16, 2023 14:45
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Chapter Forty-Six
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“Phillip’s jacket!”
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November 16, 2023 14:43
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Chapter Forty-Six
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Will was a hero. He was Blood of the Lady. He wasn’t—
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November 16, 2023 14:42
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Chapter Forty-Five
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With a brief, bitten-off snarl, Visander lowered his blade, the ten-year-old prevailing over the Champion
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November 16, 2023 14:42
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Chapter Forty-Five
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“Will is the Dark King.”
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Oh no here we go
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November 16, 2023 14:41
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Chapter Forty-Five
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The steadfast, unwavering goodness of her made everything worse.
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November 16, 2023 14:40
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. “She was my . . . she was important to me. I made her a promise. We swore we would return together. And she’s still down there, in the dark.”
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November 16, 2023 14:39
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Chapter Forty-Four
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said, “I want to be yours, not his.”
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November 16, 2023 14:39
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Chapter Forty-Four
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“Take what was his. Prove you’re not afraid. And that nor am I. We have the night,” said James. “One night, before the end of the world.”
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November 16, 2023 14:37
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Chapter Forty-Four
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You’re worried about me
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November 16, 2023 14:36
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Chapter Forty-Three
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“You’re the one I trust with it,” said Will. “The one I know will do what’s right.”
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November 16, 2023 14:33
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Chapter Forty-Three
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IN THREE QUICK strides, Will had his arms around her in a tight hug, and Violet closed her eyes and felt him warm and real against her, alive as she had feared he wouldn’t be.
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November 16, 2023 14:28
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Chapter Forty-One
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“He’s not a good man,” she said. “But he helped me.” She shrugged, pushing herself away. “And we’re helping you, though the Stewards never did anything for any of us.”
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November 16, 2023 14:20
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Chapter Thirty-Nine
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“Darkness surrounds us now,” he said. “And you are the one who brings light.”
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November 16, 2023 14:19
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Chapter Thirty-Eight
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Your Lady has no power here. She’s dead. The Dark King has risen. You died for nothing
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November 16, 2023 14:17
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Chapter Thirty-Eight
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Dance is terribly useful.”
“Not where we’re going,” said Visander.
“I don’t know, Italy’s rather a romantic destination,” said Phillip.
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November 16, 2023 14:14
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Chapter Thirty-Seven
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“You’re Ettore,” Cyprian said, in utter shock and disbelief.
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November 16, 2023 14:12
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Chapter Thirty-Six
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“I don’t know,” James said, after a long moment. “I didn’t like watching you kneel for that bandit.”
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November 16, 2023 14:07
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Chapter Thirty-Five
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“Help, they cannot help, they can only destroy, they force themselves into our world, they look like us, but they are not, they are a plague that we must wipe out—”
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November 16, 2023 14:04
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Chapter Thirty-Four
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this is Mr. Tom Ballard
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Ummmmmm
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November 16, 2023 14:03
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Chapter Thirty-Four
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“You may be a dead man from a defunct world, but you are my wife, and you can’t appear at dinner without dressing!”
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November 16, 2023 14:01
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Chapter Thirty-Three
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I think of Cyprian. I do not want him to drink. I do not want him to feel this inside him. To lose himself. To be trapped in the shadow. As I feel. As I am. I am lost in the dark. But he has a way out. It is too late for me. It is not too late for him.
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November 16, 2023 14:00
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Chapter Thirty-Three
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I held the tip over the vein in my arm.
I couldn’t do it.
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November 16, 2023 04:11
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Chapter Thirty-Two
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“We’ll say the witch killed him. That you escaped. But you must go now.”
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November 16, 2023 04:09
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Chapter Thirty-Two
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“I’ll go. Just don’t hurt him.” And then again to James, “I’ll be all right.”
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What is Cyprian doing? Just sitting there?
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November 16, 2023 04:04
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Chapter Thirty-One
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“Does it work like the ‘pistol’?”
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November 16, 2023 04:04
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Chapter Thirty-One
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“I mean,” said Visander, “I know how we travel to your friends.”
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November 16, 2023 04:02
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Chapter Thirty-One
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He’s a liar. She’d tried to tell everyone. He’d lied to her sister. He’d lied to his friends. Lying wasn’t right. She’d told them.
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November 16, 2023 04:01
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Chapter Thirty
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“Too late for that,” said Howell from above them, a figure in torchlight at the top of the rope ladder.
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November 16, 2023 03:59
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Chapter Thirty
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Had Anharion watched as Sarcean had been cast into the pit? Had any regret flickered in those beautiful blue eyes?
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November 16, 2023 03:58
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Chapter Thirty
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Was this what love felt like? The same torn-up, dizzy feeling he had when he looked at Anharion, as if he stood on one side of a depthless chasm.
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November 16, 2023 03:58
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Chapter Thirty
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“If you knew it was a trap, why did you come?” She sounded like it hurt her, and maybe it did.
He said, “You called for me.”
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November 16, 2023 03:57
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Chapter Twenty-Nine
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I told you, she has these turns
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Crap
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November 16, 2023 03:57
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Chapter Twenty-Nine
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“It will be hard to kill it,” said Mrs. Lange. “But you’ve come to me just in time.”
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November 16, 2023 03:56
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Chapter Twenty-Nine
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She treated him like a criminal. Tied him up to the bedpost. And the way she’d look at him, like . . .”
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November 16, 2023 03:55
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Chapter Twenty-Eight
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“Someone I believe could save this place.” And then, so quietly Will almost didn’t hear, “Someone I believe could save me.”
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Gosh darn it I love angst
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November 16, 2023 03:54
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Chapter Twenty-Eight
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“You’re testing me,” said Will. “You shouldn’t.”
“Why not? You’re the perfect hero, aren’t you?”
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November 16, 2023 03:53
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Chapter Twenty-Eight
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“Put it on me.”
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Freaking idiots
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November 16, 2023 03:53
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Chapter Twenty-Eight
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If someone’s going to do it,” said James, “I want it to be you.”
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November 16, 2023 03:52
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Chapter Twenty-Eight
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“If I was wearing the Collar,” said James quietly, “he didn’t need a chain.”
“No,” agreed Will.
“The chain was there because he liked me in it.”
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November 16, 2023 03:50
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Chapter Twenty-Seven
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“Then we’re going to meet Mrs. Lange,” said Elizabeth, “and she’s going to help me find my friend Violet, and you’re going to shut up and not kill anyone, and not say anything else in that weird language.”
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November 16, 2023 03:46
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Chapter Twenty-Six
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He’d had a woman’s hand around his throat before. He ought to have been terrified. Instead, he felt a helpless loving feeling of knowing Violet wouldn’t hurt him.
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November 16, 2023 03:43
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Chapter Twenty-Five
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“A dozen guards won’t be any trouble,” said James, flexing his fingers.
“No,” said Will. “You’re not going to kill guards.”
“I don’t have to kill them to—”
“Or maim guards.”
“Then how exactly do you plan to get
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November 16, 2023 03:42
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Chapter Twenty-Four
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“I’ve seen this before,” said Will. “With Katherine.”
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November 16, 2023 03:40
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Chapter Twenty-Four
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“With that much power,” said James, “you really could kill the Dark King.”
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November 16, 2023 03:39
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Chapter Twenty-Four
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Pain tore through him and he cried out.
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November 16, 2023 03:36
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Chapter Twenty-Three
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“It’s the same for me. You’re powerful . . . more powerful than anything I’ve felt. I can’t look away.” James said, “I could close my eyes and know you.”
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November 16, 2023 03:34
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Chapter Twenty-Two
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And turned cold at what she told him.
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November 16, 2023 03:28
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Chapter Twenty-One
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“And I have returned to this world to kill the Dark King.”
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November 16, 2023 03:19
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Chapter Nineteen
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He was protecting Will because he wanted to. Sarcean never had this,
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November 16, 2023 03:18
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Chapter Nineteen
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It was her, truly there, in flesh and blood, warm and real, close enough to reach out and touch.
“Violet—”
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Oh my gosh it was Will in the other scene!!!!
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November 16, 2023 03:16
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Chapter Nineteen
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“I’m learning what I can do,” said Will
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Will … don’t be Dara and Noam
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November 16, 2023 03:03
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Chapter Seventeen
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“In the Hall, Leda told us that the Dark King could look out of the eyes of men branded with the S. Look out of their eyes, speak with their voice, even control them.”
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November 16, 2023 03:02
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Chapter Seventeen
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Little Jamie is making a bid for freedom, but that is not a state he’s built for,” Sinclair said. “He is a dog who has slipped the leash, but will soon return home.”
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November 16, 2023 03:00
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Chapter Seventeen
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“He wanted him,” said Kettering. “So he made sure that he’d have him.”
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November 16, 2023 02:53
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Chapter Sixteen
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Will found himself oddly shivering, as if entering the palace had been a plunge into cold water.
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November 16, 2023 02:53
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Chapter Sixteen
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“You may be the hand of the Devil,” said James, “but I am the hand of a Master more powerful than any you serve, and this mountain is His land.”
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November 16, 2023 02:48
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Chapter Fourteen
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“Don’t forget that he was reborn to serve the Dark King.”
“I never forget that,” said Will.
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November 16, 2023 02:44
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Chapter Fourteen
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He wasn’t wearing the Collar. The affection in his eyes was real.
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November 16, 2023 02:43
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Chapter Thirteen
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and his face almost rippled
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Huh?
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November 16, 2023 02:37
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Chapter Twelve
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“I died here. That was what Gauthier said. Don’t you remember?”
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November 16, 2023 02:27
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Chapter Twelve
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Too many to think of resisting, even as he was taken by one of the men in a hard grip.
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November 16, 2023 02:25
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Chapter Eleven
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“Don’t,” said Devon. “I am not that young colt I was. I will not bend my head for your bridle, or take your bit between my teeth.”
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November 16, 2023 02:24
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Chapter Eleven
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Indeviel
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He … he rode a unicorn?
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November 16, 2023 02:23
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Chapter Ten
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Elizabeth said, “Katherine?”
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Oh no
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November 16, 2023 02:22
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Chapter Ten
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“I know I’m not very brave. But I won’t tell them what you are. I’ll die first.” She was so hurt the words were a whisper.
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November 16, 2023 01:53
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Chapter Six
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“I am Visander, the Queen’s Champion, returned to this world to kill the Dark King.”
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November 16, 2023 01:52
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Chapter Six
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“Sinclair was happy to send me
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November 16, 2023 01:48
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Chapter Five
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“You’re the one I trust to do what’s right.”
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He’s so conflicted about it :(
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November 16, 2023 01:46
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Chapter Five
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“She was Blood of the Lady. But she came to the Hall too late.”
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November 16, 2023 01:41
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Chapter Four
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They’d kill him. Or die trying. There was no acceptance waiting for him on the other side of that revelation. The others could never know. He was the Dark King. But he could refuse his fate.
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I feel so bad for him but he’s also being a little sneaky sneak
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November 15, 2023 23:14
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Chapter Three
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“What would you do if he did return?”
“I’d kill him.” She said it fiercely, instantly. “Before he could hurt our world. All of us would.”
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Welp…
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November 15, 2023 23:14
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Chapter Three
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Italy
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Ah yes the land of breadsticks holds all of the secrets
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November 15, 2023 21:35
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Chapter Three
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“Will has a way of drawing people to him.” James. Katherine. Even, in a way, herself. All of them had been pulled into this world by Will, stepping out of their lives to follow a boy they barely knew
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November 15, 2023 21:35
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Chapter Three
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“If you seek a training partner,” said Cyprian, into the quiet, “I would be honored to train with you.”
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November 15, 2023 21:29
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Chapter Two
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Sinclair cannot be allowed to capture any of you
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Well…that’s what’s gonna happen now
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November 15, 2023 21:23
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Chapter One
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He wanted to tell her again how glad he was to see her, that she was his star in the night.
That he’d never really had friends growing up, and he was so glad she was his first. That he hadn’t meant to turn that friendship into a betrayal. That he was sorry the boy she’d been friends with wasn’t real.
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November 15, 2023 17:59
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Chapter One
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This is going to be so angsty
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November 15, 2023 17:59
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Chapter One
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“I killed him.”
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Okay well that’s a bomb to drop
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November 15, 2023 17:58
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Chapter One
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“Now, now,” said James, his eyes glittering, “That’s hardly hospitable, little brother.”
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November 15, 2023 17:57
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Chapter One
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In her warm arms he felt tethered to this world, to Will, after days riding through the ghosts of the past with James. It was an illusion that he wanted so badly to believe that he held on longer than he should.
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November 15, 2023 17:54
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Chapter One
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The Hall is yours now—ruined and destroyed. He flung the thought almost angrily at the Dark King—his past self. Is that what you wanted?
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November 15, 2023 17:54
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Chapter One
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Riding in without resistance, was he fulfilling his own dream? His dark desire to take the Light’s last refuge?
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That’s what I’m most curious about … how is Will going to cope?
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November 15, 2023 17:00
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Prologue
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Katherine?” said the man.
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Oh god
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November 15, 2023 16:59
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This was not his body; this was a young woman whose limbs he could not easily control, an attempt to stand sending him stumbling to the ground.
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November 15, 2023 16:58
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You will Return, Visander. But first you must die. Had it gone wrong?
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Who is the Queen thought?
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November 15, 2023 16:57
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Prologue
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#FFE0EC
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He’s buried alive
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