“Bullshit. The love of my life was a scribe.” Steadily, we climb, twisting along the staircase. “I put you into the Riders Quadrant so you’d have a shot at surviving, and then I called in the favor Riorson owed me for putting the marked ones into the quadrant.”
― Iron Flame
― Iron Flame
“Jesinia brings me The Unabridged History of the First Six the next day, which is not only a three-hundred-year-old text but marked Classified in the endpapers, and I keep my side of the deal, handing over The Fables of the Barren.”
― Iron Flame
― Iron Flame
“IN THIS TIME OF UNPRECEDENTED VIOLATIONS OF OUR SOVEREIGN BORDERS, WE COUNT ON YOU, OUR BORDER VILLAGES, TO BE OUR EYES AND EARS. OUR SAFETY DEPENDS ON YOUR VIGILANCE. DO NOT TAKE IN STRANGERS. YOUR KINDNESS COULD KILL.”
― Iron Flame
― Iron Flame
“The only signet more terrifying than an inntinnsic is a truth-sayer. And yet we let them live.”
― Iron Flame
― Iron Flame
“You’re bound, aren’t you?” I said, dismayed. “You literally can’t tell me”
― Quicksilver
― Quicksilver
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