There had always been myths, whispered Stories about them, but never had she believed they were real. After all, the last sighting of one in its truest form had been eons before her great-grandfather's birth. But yet for all that she had thought the Stories to be exaggerations, for all that she had thought them to be …
Category: Imèn World: Book Three
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It had been far easier than he'd expected to get out of Xitlali's compound. Even easier to scramble up the retaining wall that stood nearly twenty feet high all around it and drop to the other side before anyone could stop him, if they even saw him to begin with. Though honestly it wasn't really …
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His older brother blew through the door before Sheieh had even gotten passed saying Relyt's title, one hand flippantly waving a dismissal at the Guardian who turned narrowed eyes at him. Knowing it wasn't worth the time to argue with the other male, Relyt shook his head at the Guardian's unspoken question. Sheieh narrowed his …
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Did they know they had put him in the same room he'd been in before the juggling match of locations had begun months ago? Did they know that no one had destroyed the notes that he'd had strewn across the desk, written in a language no one but he could read? Probably not because if …
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They should have known peace, known freedom, once the Question had been Answered. And they had... at first. Now they didn't. Now they knew they had done nothing more than exchange one prison for another. And the only difference between the two was the first was cold and dark and so very empty and this one was not. This …
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The room felt too small even though realistically he knew it was huge, at least double the size of the cabin's front room had been. But with each hour that bled into the next, with each day that turned to night and night back into day, the room felt smaller. The walls felt like they …
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Azriel dropped heavily onto the rocking chair beside her with a rough sigh that spoke to how much pain he was in. She didn't comment on it though. It was an unspoken agreement that they'd come to long ago when both of their loves were gone that if he didn't acknowledge her heartbreak over Nhulynolyn's …
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"When shall we move?" It was a simple question but there was no simple answer. Not one that could be given without tipping the Scales to favor one side over the other and in this Balance must be preserved. Though it would be so much easier to pick a side and throw all strength behind that side, …
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They'd been working for days now, rapidly nearing on a week, to save Nhulynolyn, to keep him from succumbing to his injuries. Nearly a week and there had been moments when the terminology close call was far too real for his comfort. He may not have had that much time to get to know the …
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He glanced back at where Rhyshladlyn lay on a stretcher that four guards carried between them. It was hard to reconcile that the male who lay so docilely, so still, was the same one who had ripped through the first layer of spellwork on his collar with all the ease of a child tearing wet …