LOGIN“I—” She scowls. “Have you heard about the conscriptions? I wasn’t aware Lightning Cape’s army was weak.”“There is strong and there is strong enough to conquer wildlands abandoned to rogues,” I reply sharply. Perhaps I wondered something similar, but Ingrid certainly lacks the knowledge to understa
AmvalI unfasten a buckle, working quietly alongside Mesut. He doesn’t even look at me, but I know now that he notices. I should have realized all along.“Sash?” Ingrid yells.I jerk back.“Your girl?” Mesut asks with a sly smile.I shake my head, praying he didn’t recognize her voice. That no one r
By all the stars, Astralis is involved in this.“Lady Evangeline,” Corwyn says, disdain grating through his polite demeanor, “you have a tea in half an hour.”“Oh, of course. Apologies.” She nods to me. “Kael here makes sure I don’t leave my head behind because I’m too busy chatting.”I rip my gaze
So, the perfect kingdoms to start rumors about if you wanted to deflect attention.“Who did you hear this from?” I ask.Bengu leans in. “One of the soldiers. Recai.”***I spend half a day tracing the rumor through the palace. Recai, it turns out, heard it from one of the visiting Oakspring Dunes so
Ingrid“I heard that Starfall Mountain is behind the recent… deaths in the Som family,” an officious-looking noblewoman says to her friend as they scurry past me.I drop my charcoal onto the ledge at the bottom of my easel. After a month and a half of everyone calling the murders accidents, this is
“Another,” a familiar voice says.From a month and a half of control, I do not jump when I hear my brother behind me.“I’ll pay.” Cirocco steps up to the bar next to me when Ozkan hesitates. “Clearly, he deserves it.”“Thank you,” I say in my lowest, least recognizable voice. “But I’ve had enough.”







