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368 pages, Hardcover
First published March 21, 2023
I’ve never liked the coppery smell of blood; something about the scent feels so sinister. Reminds me I’m actually drinking human blood.
I can’t accept it as coincidence that Ava disappeared that same day and I saw her with blood on her chin a few days later.
Then I see it, and my breath catches in my throat. There, near the bottom left of the darkness, a giant hole gapes in the Bone Wall. The bone shards cut off around it in jagged edges. It’s big enough for at least two people to walk in, side by side.
The second rule a Flame witch must know is that we trust one another first. If one among us strays too far, bring them back into the fold and remind them of our mission. For the moment we fall apart is when our enemy succeeds, and when the beast overtakes the man. —Training Academy for Young Witches of Arborren
Once I’m graduated, I’ll be able to speak to Liander as more of an equal. Right now, no one would trust the word of a trainee Flame witch over an esteemed Clarity councilor with the emperor’s favor like Eugenia Serení.
I need status to my name and I need proof that her daughter was involved in my mother’s death.
In the gravel below, a trail of footsteps