He shadowed her down the hallway, watched the way her muscles shifted and bunched and relaxed in her arms as she swung them with just enough force to propel her body weight ever forward. Watched the way the skin beneath her tunic over her shoulderblades quivered with the need to throw her wings out to …
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She slammed the door to her chambers forcefully enough to rattle the stone walls to either side of it. She was furious but it was a lie, it was a mask she had perfected over the centuries to hide her terror, to hide how even though she trusted Lílrt's work, how she trusted the research …
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"How long has he been like this?" The trees were so beautiful this time of year as the snow fell in slow tumbles between them to the grass below. He caught glimpses of the iridescent flickers of Oiki in the far distance but he wasn't concerned with them. They weren't trying to lure him to …
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Eiod felt Thayne coming even before she swung around the doorjamb in a twirl of skirts and flashing crimson eyes and boiling power that crawled across his skin like something alive and struggling. Jerald's hand curling into the back of his tunic was the only reason he stepped out of the Qishir's way before she breezed passed …
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Normally the Dining Hall was the one place in the Eighth Palace that everyone agreed to stow their disagreements, to drop their drama and their quarrels, at the door. It was something even visiting dignitaries who saw the inside of the Palace maybe twice a year knew about, something they did unconsciously, as though Thayne …
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"How is he doing?" Sheieh looked up at him with a start, winter-grey eyes a tad wide in a face that was angular and sharp even for a Grey Soul Healer. Hair the color of silver with darker grey lowlights fell to his waist in a single long braid, a few wisps of fringe framing …
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"Are we just going to not talk about it?" Ishmariel asked, voice loud in the shaky silence of the Hall. She looked at her Warrior and raised an eyebrow. He rolled chartreuse eyes before gesturing at the empty chair next to him with a clipped, short gesture that told her just how upset he really …
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He watched as Relyt stalked through the Palace, calling it anything less than that would be inaccurate. The Soul Healer moved in a bubble of his own grief and self-hatred, walked like an ice storm barely contained in a humanoid form. He watched his charge and tried to remember that he couldn't make eye contact …
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"Have you heard the news?" He looked up from where he'd been sharpening one of his backup knives to see Jerald leaning with his shoulder against the doorjamb, the Alphenian's brown eyes light enough to be near a chestnut brown versus the freshly turned earth they usually were. Sitting back in his chair, he set …
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"This is where your kind belongs, y'know. It's the only thing you are truly good for." For half a second he froze, hopeful and terrified all at once that he'd finally been recognized but his client just kept talking, hands threaded through his hair and curling into fists to get a better handhold to keep …
The Seven Worlds 