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Chapter 440
"Commander.” He said. "The prince summons the squad."…………….The planning quarters were exactly as they had left them.The big round table. The map spread across it. The pinned corners and the markings and the lines that stopped where they were supposed to stop and didn't tell you what came after.Except now Yuki was at the table.Both palms pressed flat against the surface of the map. Her eyes were open but still, the particular stillness of someone looking at something nobody else in the room could see. The flame lines of her technique were running across the map in a warm, steady glow, spreading out from her palms in every direction, filling the markings and the territory lines with a living layer of orange that breathed as she breathed.Wabash was standing at the far side of the table. He looked up when they came through the door."You're back." He said."We're here." Egries said, stepping in.Roderick was already moving across the room to the table. He looked at Yuki, then a
Chapter 439
"He's not." Asta said, with the tone of someone clarifying a minor scheduling detail. "I held back. He'll wake up in a few minutes. I just tapped the pressure point at the base of the neck, it's a clean pass-out, no damage." A short pause. "In case you were doing the math on whether you needed to worry."Egries looked at him for a moment."I know." She said.Then she turned to the benches. "Asta wins." She looked at the defence unit rows. "Two of you, come and collect your captain. Get him to the recovery bench and make sure someone stays with him until he's up."Two defence unit members were on their feet before she finished the sentence, jogging across the ground with the slightly too-fast pace of people who were glad to have something to do.They reached their captain, got him up between them, and carried him off with the careful, resigned dignity of people who had accepted the situation and were dealing with it practically.……………………….Asta walked back to where the others w
Chapter 438:Not Just My Prince
The arena went silent.Not the kind of silence that builds up slowly while people process something. The instant kind. The kind where one moment there was movement and sound and the next moment there was just,nothing. Like someone had reached over and turned the whole training ground off.The defence unit members were all on their feet.Not because they had stood up deliberately. Because their bodies had stood up without asking permission, the way bodies do when something happens that the brain hasn't finished understanding yet.The captain of the defence unit was flat on the ground.Passed out. Face down. Completely still. His arms were at his sides and his legs were straight and he looked less like a man who had been in a fight and more like a man who had simply decided, very suddenly, that the ground looked comfortable and he was going to lie on it.One of the defence unit members was staring at the spot where his captain was lying with an expression that had genuinely lost its fo
Chapter 437
He looked at her the way you look at someone when you have understood something about them that they haven't said out loud.He was quiet for a moment.Then he said. "I remember your grandfather."His voice was low. Different from Jabber's,not dramatically, but enough. Older somehow. Like the same instrument played in a different register.Beatrice didn't move."He was the strongest human flame mage I had faced in that era." Loki said. "I do not say that as something small. I faced many." He looked at her steadily. "He tracked me across two realms. He cornered me in a valley with four hunters and he fought me alone when the others fell. He had more in him than almost anyone I encountered in that time."Beatrice 's jaw was tight. Her eyes were bright in a way that had nothing to do with flame."He deserved more than the end he was given." Loki said. "I know that. I knew it then." He paused, and the pause had real weight in it. "What I did to him, consuming him,I will not prete
Chapter 436
‘"Yes."’Jabber looked at Beatrice for a moment longer. Then he let out a breath."Okay.”He said, he then closed his eyes.The training ground went quiet in a way that had nothing to do with anyone making a decision to be quiet. It just happened, like the air itself stopped moving and waited.Then Jabber's eyes opened.And they were purple.Not orange. Not the warm amber of a flame mage's eyes in a fight. Deep, flat purple,the colour of something old and patient and completely at home in whatever space it occupied. The posture of Jabber's body shifted too, not dramatically, not like a different person taking over a puppet. More subtle than that. The weight distribution changed. The shoulders settled differently. The head tilted just a fraction, and the way the eyes moved across the training ground was different, slower, more complete, the way something looks around a space when it has done this before and is not in a hurry.Loki looked at Beatrice .The trembling started at the ben
Chapter 435
"Then I will tell you my name." She said. "So that he knows exactly who I am and where I come from."Jabber looked at her. "Okay."She looked at him directly."My name is Beatrice.Beatrice Voss." She held his gaze. "Captain of the Long-Range Attack Unit of Prince Wabash's guard." She paused for just a breath. "And the granddaughter of Aldric Voss. Flame mage of the Voss Clan. One of the last great clans from the era of the Ancient Wars."The name didn't land immediately on Jabber's face. He looked at her, waiting for the part that was supposed to mean something.She saw it and continued."My grandfather was alive during the time when the humans and the dragons were still at war," She said. "When the great flame mages hunted the dragons and the dragons hunted back and there was no line between the two sides except survival." Her voice was steady and clear, the way someone speaks when they have told themselves a story so many times it has become something close to recitation.
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