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her very blood destined her for a sacrificial altar, and yet she had gotten out of the boat to find them. ...

Yrene paused. “Is there a threat?” “No, but any pregnancy, especially in the early months, is draining. That’s ...

CHAPTER 39 The enemy’s army arrived not in three days, or four, but five. A blessing and a curse, Nesryn dec ...

in having her here, fighting beside him. And for Chaol to know that if he fell, it would not be her life ...

By dawn on the fifth day, they were near the outskirts of the lake, the plain. Nesryn sat atop Salkhi ...

injured!” Eretia frowned, but rushed with Yrene to meet the townsfolk bearing an already- bloodied s ...

gazing toward the lake sparkling under the winter light, steam from the nearby hot springs drifting ...

Erawan’s army launched at the city for another day of all-out assault on the walls. The ruks soared, ...

of the game the two of them played, had been playing for years now. To feign loathing, when it was so ...

and droves of soldiers with them. Chaol had cut them down, and though the warriors of Anielle had b ...

Nesryn stared after Borte until she’d reached the plain, passing by Yeran and his ruk in a daring mane ...

Nesryn’s idea last night: to stop going for the endless front lines and instead take out those who order ...

The bone drums began at sundown. Yrene stood on the highest parapet of the keep, counting the torches sprawli ...

Praying Yrene wasn’t near it. He’d barely seen her during these days of bloodshed and exhaustion. ...

Chaol had yielded their room to a family of five, the children too young to make the trip to the Wastes, ...

A few swords stopped quivering. “You are people of Anielle,” Chaol went on, hefting his shield and angling his swor ...

days on getting everyone in that she hadn’t thought of things like catapults and shattering blocks of h ...

Soaring over the army hurling arrows and spears at them, Nesryn banked left, the ruks behind her following sui ...

stand before they were up, hours before dawn. The rest of the keep was awake, too, the ruks restless ...

Nesryn nocked an arrow and picked her target. Again. The Valg commander had evaded her shot the last time. ...