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“To hope. Sciona lifted her glass, and Thomil raised a fist in return.
To hope, Highmage Freynan. “

“Keep running!” reverberated through the streets and alleys. They were words all Kwen knew well. Even those who had been born inside the barrier knew the echo from their parents and grandparents. “Forward! Don’t look back!”


* its a full circle moment just like the beginning of the book!

“Why won’t you kill me?”
Thomil answered in quiet honesty. “I watched a woman run herself to death on the belief that there was some good in the High Magistry. She did her best to leave some hope in the world—for your people and mine. I never… Even at the end, I never shared her optimism, but in her honor, this once, I’m going to try.”

* This!! Made me tear up 🥹

“Thomil looked down at the only remaining highmage of Tiran. “And you won’t forget, will you, Archmage Supreme Mordra the Tenth?”


* OMG!

“And you think letting this one live is going to help us survive?” Carra was incredulous.
Truthfully, Thomil wasn’t sure. Surely, it wasn’t justice to spare this man, who had grown and thrived on the blood of Kwen. It wasn’t logical. But it was important, because Jerrin Mordra hadn’t proven himself a knowing murderer, and hope was important.
“As long as he doesn’t forget this day.”

.”We’re not going to kill you.”
“We’re not?” Carra said. “Why?”
“Because we’re not them,” Thomil said. “We’re Caldonnae. We kill to survive.”

“Sciona was proof that hope didn’t have to mean living to the end of the story; for Kwen like Thomil, how could it? Carra’s life was worth fighting for, whether fighting meant dying here or stubbornly living on. Maeva had understood that: that it was worth dying at the border of salvation if you could push your love before you over the finish line.”

* Are we losing Thomil too?

Renthorn!!! What a devil how can someone be so cruel! Is human greed that blinding?

“With her soul in the spiral on its way to Hell, Sciona’s last thought was not of vengeance or legacy. It was of love.””

“Her last thought was the itch of a question:Had Thomil done this because he loved her or because he hated her?But then—no,she decided,as her blood and being blurred into white light.She hoped this hadn’t been about her at all. She hoped that Thomil had looked inside himself and found what he needed to move forward. Thomil, Carra,Winny, Alba…She hoped they all pushed through this horror to better things.”