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“Of course I was tested.”“Whe
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instead we stuck to the Vy, and Fed
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that it was one of my guards. His b
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will not have this power, too.” H
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I turned to look at him. That trace
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In the gathering dusk, I stretched
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He drank, staring into the fire, an
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“He … he said that Darklings ar
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TWO DAYS LATER, just after dawn, we
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domes. As we drew closer, I saw tha
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CHAPTER 6I DREAMED THAT I was back
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I nodded mutely, and Genya clapped
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“Forget it,” I said, jumping to
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She plucked a long comb made of bon
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“I know who you are, of course,
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a demonstration.”I felt as if I
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The King scrutinized me. He frowned
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“No,” I said, and then quickly
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“Wait!” I called before I could
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Grisha might not approve.”“Why?
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Maybe I would wake tomorrow and fin
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I started with the pile of clothes
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The Darkling’s table was empty, t
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she said, pointing to the double do
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another table, a Fabrikator with a
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“I’ll pass.”We descended a se
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I closed the door.“Good, let’s
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I did my best to pay attention, but
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The sole consolation was that we we
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I shrugged. It felt strange to say
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Then he dropped my hand and opened
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like I was stumbling through my day
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creep through me.He sat down in the
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I’d written to him every week, ca
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As if she could feel my stare, Zoya
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I stepped to the side, and as she c
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“A bit,” I admitted. How long h
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Genya shrugged. “Maybe the King a
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glittering off the tiles in the gra
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“Don’t chide me, old woman,”
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His slate-colored gaze was cool and
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When I looked up, Baghra was standi
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giggling behind her hand with her l
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opposite her and waited.Baghra let
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I know then. I know that we are dif
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CHAPTER 13THAT VERY AFTERNOON, I jo
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into my opponent’s eyes. I worked
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She sighed. “The usual. Life. Lov
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body thrummed with power. It was ex
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warm in the winter?”His mouth qui
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I sat sipping tea with them, asking
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everything in me not to stand up in
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hair, but I hadn’t wanted to ask.
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“A lot of good it does me,” she
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“Right,” I said, and snatched t
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“You know I can’t go into the b
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And why should he? I was just anoth
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Ivan darted away, ignoring me compl
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me from the stage into the crowd. P
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I don’t know what might have happ
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had ridden with me and Ivan in the
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“My … what?” Then it hit me,
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Instantly, I knew I’d said the wr
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CHAPTER 15ONLY WHEN I WAS in my roo
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pursuit if he thought it was nothin
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A shiver went through me. “No,”
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Had it all been deliberate? The kis
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like years had passed since I’d l
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and I willed the wagon’s driver t
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still does?I thrust the thought awa
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After so many days on my own, the n
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“I’m blind!” wailed the man o
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slumped against the base of a tree,
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quiet as he led me up the mountain
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stretched, and slung his rifle over
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“How can you say that?” I deman
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“And now you’re a deserter.”
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“Maybe it’s Sunday,” I said.
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looking knife to his throat, and th
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Longface loomed over Mal, the knife
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Mal dropped his head, covering it w
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CHAPTER 18WE STILL SAW shoots of ne
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“Hmmph,” he grumbled noncommitt
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herd, drawing as close to the outpo
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“I don’t believe that.”Mal sa
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“What happened?”“Nine of us c
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CHAPTER 19MY LIGHT KEPT US warm thr
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myself walking around to find you,
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The stag had fallen on his side and
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“Quiet now, or I will let Ivan ki
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bone shift and melt together. No cl
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CHAPTER 20WE WALKED IN SILENCE for
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“Let the traitor walk,” Ivan re
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the King.”“If word of your disa
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She entered and set down the tray,
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I knew she didn’t believe me, but
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Without looking at me, he gestured
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He slumped back in his chair. “Fi
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He waved his hand dismissively, and
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“If I’d been stronger, I would
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CHAPTER 22DAWN WAS CREEPING over Kr
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It didn’t take long for them to a
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But I could do nothing. My power sl
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within the protective circle of my
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not with the volcra circling outsid
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me.I raised my hand and brought it
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reaches of the Unsea, ready to brin
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AFTERTHE BOY AND THE GIRL stand at
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