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the Matrons dismounted and did not raise their hands in request for parley. No, they onl ...

spears, either, to account for the felling of so many. A veritable road of Valg demons flowed ahead. Elide fol ...

It was on the Yellowlegs Matron, hunched and hateful between them. On the crown of stars atop the crone’s thinned w ...

wonder her throat didn’t bleed. “Lorcan!” The dam remained intact. Which of her breaths would be her last? ...

her response. Yet it was Glennis who snarled, in a voice Manon had not yet heard, “What is it that you want?” M ...

piled atop him. Elide reached him just as he’d managed to dislodge a soldier sprawled over him. Elide ...

opposite in so many ways of the daughter who had given Manon the chance to speak, “to at last rid us o ...

lift him. He might as well have been a boulder, might as well have been as immovable as t ...

have no true power beyond what we give you. And you are scared to death that we’re about to take i ...

moved his legs under him again. His breathing turned jagged. Fresh blood dribbled from his stomach, fl ...

Manon stepped beyond the line she’d drawn in the snow. No one spoke behind her. She wondered if any ...

He panted and panted, fresh blood sliding from his back, too. This ride would be agony. But they had no ...

this time.” There was doubt in Cresseida’s blue eyes. As if she’d realized what the other two Matron ...

a chance against that dam. We will die.” Lorcan panted for another heartbeat. Then another. And then, gritt ...

able to now.” “We’ll see about that,” her grandmother hissed, and charged. Manon was ready. An upward swing ...

blood gushed from his wounds, but then he was rising into the air, toward the horse’s back. Elide t ...

evading the sweep of Cresseida’s nails, and a countermove had Manon driving her elbow into the Blueblood ...

Not allowing herself to register the pain, Elide ran the few steps to Farasha and leaped. Lorcan’s hand gripp ...

But Manon swung her sword, again and again, iron on steel ringing out across the icy peaks. No, she was not ...

Farasha obeyed. Elide rocked back into Lorcan as the mare launched into a gallop, earning another ...