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about was the huge canopied bed.“Can I get you anything? Something to eat?” asked thewoman. I shook my head. I just wanted sleep.“Very good,” she said, and nodded to the maid, who curtsiedand disappeared down the hall. “Then I’ll let you rest. Makesure to lock your door.”I blinked.“As a precaution,” said the woman and left, closing the doorgently behind her.A precaution against what? I wondered. But I was too tiredto think about it. I locked the door, peeled off the kefta and myboots, and fell into bed.
CHAPTER 6I DREAMED THAT I was back in Keramzin, slipping throughthe darkened hallways on stockinged feet, trying to find Mal. Icould hear him calling to me, but his voice never seemed toget any closer. Finally, I reached the top floor and the door tothe old blue bedroom where we liked to sit in the window seatand look out at our meadow. I heard Mal laughing. I threwopen the door … and screamed. There was blood everywhere.The volcra was perched on the window seat and, as it turnedon me and opened its horrible jaws, I saw that it had grayquartz eyes.I bolted awake, my heart thudding in my chest, and lookedaround in terror. For a moment I couldn’t remember where Iwas. Then I groaned and flopped back onto the pillows.I had just started to doze off again when someone beganpounding on the door.“Go away,” I mumbled from beneath the covers. But thepounding only grew louder. I sat up, feeling my whole bodyshriek in rebellion. My head ached, and when I tried to stand,my legs did not want to cooperate.“All right!” I shouted. “I’m coming!” The knockingstopped. I stumbled over to the door and reached for the lock,but then I hesitated. “Who is it?”“I don’t have time for this,” a female voice snapped frombehind the door. “Open. Now!”I shrugged. Let them kill me or kidnap me or whatever theywanted. As long as I didn’t have to ride a horse or climb stairs,I wouldn’t complain.I had barely unlocked the door when it flew open and a tallgirl pushed past me, surveying the room and then me with acritical eye. She was easily the most beautiful person I’d everseen. Her wavy hair was deepest auburn, her irises large andgolden; her skin was so smooth and flawless that she looked asif her perfect cheekbones had been carved from marble. She
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Title PageBEFORECHAPTER ICHAPTER 2C
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BEFORETHE SERVANTS CALLED them male
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They peered through the railing of
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“You will have the finest clothes
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that just showed the Shadow Fold as
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“What else is new?”He was right
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“Close your mouth before somethin
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training, we had to submit two fini
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Page 42 and 43: “I don’t remember,” Mal said.
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Page 48 and 49: “What’s the difference?”Ivan
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Page 64 and 65: “Are you going to explain it to m
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It was studded with what looked lik
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“Because she’s jealous!” said
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“Faith,” he breathed, his black
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Genya returned, and I wrote out Mal
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CHAPTER 12THE NEXT MORNING wasn’t
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“I’ve just never seen you so
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“No. And even if I were, once we
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Still, I couldn’t help but think
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nor paper with which to write. Or,
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“Is it? What else do you have to
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holding on still. Despite all the l
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“It isn’t something separate fr
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claimed it would be the most lavish
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“Whatever do you mean?”“You k
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“Do you?”“Yes,” I said. “
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lamplight shone in his gray eyes.
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CHAPTER 14AS WINTER DREW to a close
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thinking of my beautiful sunken tub
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“Feel what?”“The pull. Toward
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“Just come on!”She pulled me do
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“You don’t mean that.”“No.
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Corporalki guard. I held my head hi
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The orchestra struck a dramatic cho
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in a glowing sphere that surrounded
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“This is the only thing I want to
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nervously, trying to think of an ex
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on my hips, his lips on my neck, th
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He gave a rough bark of laughter.
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He shook his head, that bitter smil
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“What is this? Where are we going
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I sighed. Why had Baghra picked ton
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have to kneel to another King again
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CHAPTER 16BAGHRA’S RELIEF was unm
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Looking out at the grounds, I thoug
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I really needed to do was steal a h
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miserable. I’d been lonely my who
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It took me longer than I’d expect
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looked behind me, I saw the shapes
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in a crumpled heap on the ground an
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“But what?”Mal hesitated. In th
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CHAPTER 17MAL TOOK BOTH watches and
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By dusk, we’d climbed high enough
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When we finally began the northwest
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village’s main street, shopkeeper
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grunted. “And the pack looks like
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Gingerly, Mal touched the wound on
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We walked until dusk and then made
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As we were walking through a band o
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“Mal, that night at the Little Pa
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onward. Late in the afternoon, we r
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“So that night, Mikhael and Dubro
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reasons for wanting to track the st
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finding shelter. Instead, we stood
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“Wait,” I whispered, laying a h
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A wave of shame rushed through me a
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“David understands the future,”
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When I looked back at the Darkling,
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Ivan shook his head. “The Darklin
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It was hard not to be reminded of t
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Sun Summoner, wearing the greatest
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The hope that the King might have t
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CHAPTER 21I PICKED AT MY DINNER and
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“I’ve given you power beyond al
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something I didn’t recognize, som
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“A visitor.”“Since when do yo
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service, the Suli violins we’d he
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curiously belled sleeves. An envoy
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dark, and I could hear them crying
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“It will not stand,” blustered
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the Fold. I smelled the pines, felt
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“Don’t let her reach the railin
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The sun rose at our backs, pink lig
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“By then we’ll have found a way
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The wind creaks in the sails. The s
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Russia, by Suzanne Massie; and Russ
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