Kingdom of Ash

CHAPTER 63 Aedion and Kyllian kept their panicking troops in line as they marched, all the way to t ...

to look up. “Don’t tell me to run.” “Never.” Close—they were so close to Theralis. How fitting it would ...

Send out messengers. Send out Nox Owen. Call for aid. Dispatch them to every direction, to ...

death that marched at their backs. Aedion fitted his helmet onto his head, the metal bitingly cold. “Non ...

luck was bad enough. So Aedion continued, alone, to the front lines. Two Bane soldiers stepped asid ...

How soon would its power be unleashed? He prayed, for the sake of his soldiers, that it would be quick, and ...

Aedion looked away first. This would be bad enough without knowing she was here. That Lysandra ...

their helmets. Bearing Ansel of Briarcliff’s roaring wolf insignia. The rest of the army that she’d ...

Not when it might be the heads of his own soldiers that were launched at Orynth’s walls. Ren ordered a ...

the line, a challenge to the charging army. Fifty feet. Ren’s archers still fired fewer and fewer arrows. ...

Soldiers behind him shouted. In triumph and relief. “Close the gap,” Aedion growled to the warriors ...

contraption, scarves over their mouths. Firelances. A horn blasted from the river. And then the firelances ...

timing. Then a familiar voice rang out. “Quickly! On board, all of you!” Rolfe. For the ships in th ...

down her freckled cheeks. The heads of her men lay scattered in the snow around her. And ahead of them, sti ...

Aedion followed suit. It was the longest sprint of his life. But then he was at the gangplank of Rolfe’s ship, ...

Aedion reached them, panting and so relieved he might vomit upon the shining planks. Rolfe let ...

here.” The Pirate Lord’s tan face tightened. “So here I am.” Aedion hardly noticed the sailors ...

prepare.” The Pirate Lord studied the shore, as if looking for someone. “She’s not here, is she.” Lys ...

only a few words before Kyllian turned toward Aedion and lifted a hand in farewell. Aedion raised o ...

CHAPTER 64 Hours later, Yrene was still shaking. At the disaster they’d narrowly avoided, at the deaths she ...