![]() ![]() ![]() It colors everything red, and a darkness roars inside me. He believes I am too foolish to notice.įury floods my veins, numbing my pain, making me forget the Commandant. But why speak with him? He’s buying time until the Commandant wakes up. “By people a thousand years gone!” I shout. My children murdered with salt and steel and summer rain. You would do anything to stop her, yes? So what makes you so different from me?” She annihilated your people and torments them still. She destroyed your family and turned your mother into a murderess and kinslayer. “You wish to murder her, Laia of Serra.” He stands and approaches. The guards have found pressing duties elsewhere.” He crouches beside Keris, feeling her pulse with a gentleness that bewilders me. “I cannot let you harm her, Laia.” The Nightbringer sounds almost sorry. “Damn you.” I look past the Nightbringer to Keris. And while the Nightbringer cannot kill me-he cannot kill any who touched the Star-Keris Veturia can. All to mask a vile creature that wants nothing more than to obliterate me. I did not realize what a gift that was until now. It has been more than a year since I’ve seen the Nightbringer in his human form. ![]()
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