Kingdom of Ash

wall. There was no expression on her face, no tension in her body. Yet she inclined her head to the Little Fol ...

world no heed, as she took up a spot between the fire and the cave wall, lay upon the bare stone, and ...

CHAPTER 32 Dorian had brown eyes for three days before he figured out how to change them back to blue. A ...

Temis, Goddess of Wild Things, was free— uncaged. As he had once wished to be, when he had been little ...

He sat on a fallen, moss-covered log, gnawing on the strip of dried rabbit. His dinner. “My head ...

“Nothing,” he said. Many of the Thirteen and Crochans went back to their meager meals at his dull respo ...

had stolen, it lay—the little snarl in his magic. Not a snarl, but a knot—a knot in a tapestry. One that he ...

His silent answer sent that magical loom tumbling from his invisible grip, and he knew if he looked, his da ...

words as necessary. Asterin answered for the coven. “No. Not one of us, though I spent some time in a f ...

what is left of our once-great city, our lands.” “Nothing but rubble, they say,” Manon muttered. “An ...

“We scouted ahead, to the rendezvous site,” Edda panted. Manon braced herself. A whisper of power flicke ...

CHAPTER 33 They had been too late. Not just by an hour, or a day. No, judging by the state of the bodie ...

Brought this about, in delaying the Crochans through that skirmish. One look at Dorian, the king lingerin ...

“Choose your words carefully,” Asterin warned. But Una, the pretty, brown-haired Crochan and another of Manon’s ...

her mouth still gaping in pain. “I can burn them,” Dorian offered no one in particular. Who had she been, the wa ...

Erawan’s crowned rider. His Wing Leader. “Don’t burn them,” Manon said. Silence fell in the clearing. But Man ...

For hours, Manon and the Thirteen knelt in the blood-soaked earth and dug the grave. Dorian assisted Bronwen ...

rebels and gathered forces, while small, were still resisting Morath, still unbroken. They would continue ...

Before this occurred again. Before one more mass grave was dug. He couldn’t endure the thought of it, ...

him, invisible hands eager to crack bone. Not that there was any life to steal from Kaltain Rompier. Yet ...