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“I have no wish to lose you to frostbite after finally having chosen you.” There’s that finally again. “According to Kaori, you’ve never bonded before. You’re only twenty-seven years old.” It doesn’t make sense. “What even is a year?”

…yes. What is a year? Do dragon years work differently?

“I know. Yet another reason I have finally chosen to involve myself with your kind again.”

“Again” doesn’t make sense with a dragon that hasn’t bonded before and is only 27 years old.

“It is why I seek your bloodline.” That comment raises my brows, but I keep moving forward, curving around the largest of the boulders. “Why I seek you.”

This is highly specific but WHY

“I know all about your interests, Garrick Tavis.” The burr in his tone catches on the Rs in my name. “I know the power you’ll need to pursue them.”

It’s he knows Garrick would willingly tune Venin for more power. And if he IS older than he says then he deffo knows about the Venin.

Thank you, Dunne. The goddess of war surely favors Xaden in a way she never blessed his father.

Huh. Funny you say that. And then a few years after Xaden meets a girls who’s BLESSED/TOUCHED by Dunne

The yearning hits so deep, so hard, that I splay a hand over my chest to try to muffle the ever-present ache. It took weeks to travel here on horseback, and I would give anything to cross those hundreds of miles and mountains if just to see her face for a heartbeat.

NO WAY garricks signet is a literal manifestation of his DEEP YEARNING for Imogen. Distance wielding. So he could travel TO HER

I’ve loved her from the first time she punched me in the face at nine years old (…) and I could never live with myself if I thought she was coming here only to die.

ARE YOU JOKING

I used the second long ago to get my mother out of Aretia before the Navarrians came for us.

Garrick mum is alive…? Idk why I thought she was dead

We’d somehow managed to keep the royal pain in my ass from slitting my throat, and on a day like today, when rules are suggestions and ethics are hypothetical, it feels like I was just given a third chance at life.

Third chance?
If today was one, and the second was when he saved his mum…then what’s the previous one?

Mind you he escapes death again when he doesn’t die from being poisoned by chocolate cake