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‘Thank you,’ said Kastor, ‘brother.’ And he drew a knife from his belt, and ran it straight through Damen’s unprotected body. The shock of betrayal hit a moment before the physical pain that drove him a step back.

OH MY GOD DAMEN YOU ARE SOOOO STUPIDLY NICE AND NAIVE I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU JUST FORGAVE HIM GOD JUST BE MAD WANT REVENGE!!!

‘I didn’t want you made a slave. When the Regent asked for you, I refused. It was Jokaste. She convinced me to send you to Vere.’
‘Yes,’ said Damen. ‘I’m beginning to understand that she did.’
Another step.
‘I’m your brother.’ Kastor said it, as Damen took another step, and then another. ‘Damen, it’s a terrible thing to kill your own family.’

Fuck this guy.

‘You came,’ said Laurent.
‘You knew I would,’ said Damen.
‘If you need an army to take your capital,’ said Laurent, ‘I seem to have one.’

Ofc he did!! He loves you.

‘The last words of my brother, the archer Langren, carried by the soldier called Govart, and stolen by the Regent’s pet, Nicaise, who was killed for it. This is the testimony of the dead.’

Rest in peace Nicaise.

A kingdom, or this.
‘I met the Prince in Vere. I thought as you did. I didn’t know his heart.’
It was Laurent who said, ‘No.’
‘I came to learn it slowly.’
‘Damen, don’t do this.’
‘I came to learn his honesty, his integrity, his strength of mind.’
‘Damen—’

I'm terrified

“Uncle, don’t leave me alone—”’

THIS DISGUSTING WASTE OF A MAN, OF A BREATH, OF A SPACE. I HOPE SO SUFFER SOOO HARD BEFORE YOU DIE, YOU GODDAMNED CREEP.

And he has come here to give himself up for the child. He doesn’t even care whose child it is. He just knows it’s in danger, and that you’ll never fight me while I have it. He’s found the way to ensure that in the end, you will win: give himself up, in exchange for your child’s life.

Laurent you crazy crazy person!!!!!!

‘I think you saw it clearly, in those twilight days in Akielos. The end was coming, and Damianos wouldn’t listen to anyone. The only way to save his life was to persuade Kastor to send him as a slave to Vere. To do that you had to be in Kastor’s bed.’
He said, ‘I think it’s Kastor’s child, because I don’t think you would use Damen’s child against him.’

Damen is gonna be furious...

‘I was the Regent’s physician.’
‘So you ministered to his household.’
‘And to his boys,’ said Paschal.
Damen said nothing.

I really really hope I'm reading all this wrong. I don't want it to be true. But there so many lil phrases like this in each book and I feel like I'm going to throw up.

And then like Laurent he was suddenly somewhere he had never been. ‘I’ve,’ said Damen, ‘never—’
‘Nor have I,’ said Laurent. ‘You’d be my first.’
'As you’d be mine,’ he heard himself say.

Oops the percentages were ALL wrong... but anyway this is tooo much!! Again I really feel like I shouldn't be reading this omg