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“Max sat down on a couch. "I think he wants her to join him." Nora sat next to him. "She'll never agree to it." Max sat quietly for a moment, thinking about what he knew of his sister. They had spent very little time together and he didn't yet know all of her strengths. She'd hidden her magic from him. She was smart, but he knew her weakness. A smile crept across his face. "I know that look," Nora said. "You've got an idea." "If we want to try to get my sister to join us, we can't go through her. She's too noble. But we can go through those who are close to her. She's in love with Ashton." "Your apprentice?" Nora's eyebrows pressed together. "Was that the one she brought with her to the castle?" Max nodded. "So that's why he's not here," Nora said. "He's in love with the little princess. It'd be sweet if it wasn't so inconvenient for us.”
― Dyan Chick, Oracle of Illaria

“Don't be cross with me, Max." Her smile was too sweet. She set a hand on her stomach. "We may have a new prince joining us, soon.”
― Dyan Chick, Oracle of Illaria

“I want to be a good king, Nora." Max didn't think he'd ever told her that before. For Nora, it was about eliminating her father and becoming queen. Without Max, she'd never live to see her father's reign end. The dark magic coursing through his veins had already prolonged his life. Once he channeled all of the Darkness entering Illaria, he'd be unstoppable, immortal. "My father probably started out the same way." Nora stroked Max's shoulder the way a mother would soothe an upset child. Max caught her arm in his hand, squeezing harder than he should have. Nora gasped. "I'm nothing like your father," Max said. Nora leaned in toward Max, her mouth inches from his. "Of course you are. Look how easily you gave up the love of your life for me. You think I don't know how you feel about me? You think this is easy for me? Being in love with somebody who loves another?”
― Dyan Chick, Oracle of Illaria

“King Osbert smiled. Max had learned to mask his reaction to the king's smile. It was far too sinister an expression for any man to wear.”
― Dyan Chick, Oracle of Illaria

“He'd underestimated the power his sister held. He'd underestimated the fact people would be willing to follow a woman.”
― Dyan Chick, Oracle of Illaria

“Your highness, we saw Max." She nodded to Herman, the man who had gone with her. "He was with the king." She bit down on her lip. I'd imagined a hundred different things Max could be doing with his time since he left the camp. Working with the king never once crossed my mind. He hated the king as much as I did. "No, no, that's not possible. It must have been somebody else." "Your highness, it was Max. And we watched him raise the dead.”
― Dyan Chick, Oracle of Illaria