Sarah Geoghegan’s Reviews > Threshing Day > Status Update

‘My body curves over Glane’s spine, and we head towards to flight field, sharing a secret that would destroy Kaori’s faith in the Empyrean.
But it restores mine.’

‘An Orange Daggertail that should be dead.’

‘Especially since I went to bed after Presentatjkk with a shimmering new relic of an Orange Daggertail winding around my left hip, a fact I’m keeping to myself. It’s a claiming mark.’

‘“Why me?”
“Because you seek power to end harm, instead of the means for victory.” “And that is a unique quality among riders.”’

‘“One day your inability to be entirely truthful with someone is going to bite you in the ass.”
“Doubtful, my ability to keep secrets keeps people alive.”’

‘“There’s a chance that the dragons willing to fight this war with us are seeking out riders with rebellion relics.”
“Of course they’re willing to fight Poromiel, otherwise they wouldn’t bond—“ My words die. “Oh you mean…”
“Yes”’

‘“I could have don’t better, but I’m not you.”
“No one asked you to be.” He dhoots me a look, then grasps my shoulders and turns me, stopping us in the middle of the forest. His eyes bore into mine as he leans down slightly, brining our gazes level.
“Bohdi, no one asks, expects, or wants you to be me.”
“Yeah.” “Of course. Only if you did, right?”’

‘As it is, sometimes I feel like I’m one of Kaori’s projections of Xaden; I resemble him enough to earn both hatred and respect, depending on who’s looking, but lack the power to make the same impact he does.’

‘But more than anything, just for today, I want to walk into this forest as my own man, to be seen as more than Xaden Riorson’s cousin.’

‘So fine, I’ll keep an eye out to see if the kids with the rebellion relics are breaking the Codex. It’s the least I can do for the man who had given me everything, and if it keeps Violet safe, then even better.’

‘“- because the dragons established the rules and their word is law.”’