Kingdom of Ash

down, you’re afraid. You don’t know how to ask me to stay, because you’re afraid of admitting to yourself ...

folded, hearths being packed. The Thirteen were with the wyverns, supplies stowed in saddlebags ...

A reminder of the promise she’d made to honor the Queen of Terrasen. A single, solitary flame agai ...

know how, and had never bothered to learn. You’re afraid. Yes, she was. Of everything. Glennis lowered ...

She knew those wyverns, almost as well as she knew the three riders who sent the Crochans into ...

CHAPTER 56 The three High Witches had come alone. It didn’t stop the Crochans from rallying, brooms swift ...

unit.” “None of their covens?” “No. And no sign of Iskra or Petrah.” Manon swallowed. The Matrons truly had ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

to stop this. But she had ordered him to stand down. And he’d obey. Around him, the Crochans thrummed with ...

rang across the mountains themselves. Her grandmother let out a crow’s caw of a laugh. “Is that all you can do, th ...

same.” Dorian could have sworn the sacred flame burning to their left flared brighter. Could have sworn ...