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„We all have darkness inside us, Rielle,” he said, his voice rough. „That is what it means to be human.”

271. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Audric Courverie · Rielle Dardenne
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They will love me. All of them will.

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Rielle Dardenne
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The empirium is always there. Every moment, every breath, every inch of life you touch. It waits for you.
Corien remarked softly, Your teacher is not wrong. Rielle set her jaw.
But the empirium does not simply wait for you, Rielle, he continued. It hungers for you. No one else will ever understand it as you can. It longs for you the way a lover yearns for his mate.
Rielle snapped open her eyes. The world around her began to shimmer. Her fingers curled. I hunger for it as well.

23. fejezet

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Corien · Rielle Dardenne · Taliesin 'Tal' Belounnon
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Even while my mother burned, I was glad to feel the power simmering at my fingers.
Even though I know Corien is an angel, I want him to come back to me.
Even though you belong to Ludivine…I want you for my own.
I want…I want. I crave. I hunger.

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“Here, my lady. I’ll help you back to bed and send for some tea. And a cinnamon cake, perhaps?”
Rielle leaned heavily into Evyline’s board body. “Perhaps three cales would do the trick.”
“Three cakes are, generally speaking, much more effective than one, my lady.”
Rielle’s smile was faint, and brought prickling tears to her eyes. “Bless you, Evyline. I’ve taught you well.”

251. oldal

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Evyline · Rielle Dardenne
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„We'll be right there,” Rielle called. „Have I ever given you reasons to doubt me?”
„On numerous occasions, in fact,” Odo replied. There was a pause. „Should I enumerate them for you?”

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Odo Laroche · Rielle Dardenne
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Cselekményleírást tartalmazó szöveg

“The saints lied to you. I just saw it, in my mind. The empirium showed it to me.”
Corien froze, watching her in silence.
She approached him slowly. “During peace negotiations, near the end of the war, they told you they had discovered another world, lying beyond our own. An uninhabited world, where you could create a new homeland for yourselves. Humans, in Avitas. Angels, in this new world. Two races, separated and at peace. And they lied.”
She shook her head, laughing, and lightly touched her temples. “You thought you were traveling to a new home. Then you found yourselves in the Deep.”
“And bodiless.” The color was high in Corien’s pale cheeks.
“It was torment for you. I felt it, just now. I lived it. I felt my body being taken from me, as yours was from you.”
He rounded on her. “Vision from the empirium or no, you could not possibly understand what it is to have your body truly stripped from you. To lose your beauty and strength, all sense of touch and taste, and be forced to exist as a shell of yourself. And all the while knowing that your true home lies just on the other side of a veil you cannot move past.” He took her face in his hands. “Don’t you see, Rielle? What I do, I do to save my people. We were banished to a place that is not our home. We have been painted villains by the very people who wronged us.”
“And they would not have had to wrong you,” she replied, “if you hadn’t grown so jealous of our power that you tried to kill us.”
Corien’s expression turned to stone.
“Yes, I saw that too,” she whispered, smiling. “You were the one to start this war, centuries and centuries ago. You started the movement in the angelic cities that caught fire and spread. You thought it was unjust of God to have granted elemental power to beings so much lower than you and your own. You thought us a scourge, an insult to your own existence, a blight on your world. You craved our power for yourself. You’re a warmonger. A zealot. You turned your race against mine. If anyone is to blame for what’s happened to your people, it’s not the saints. It’s you, and you alone.”
She stepped away; his hands slipped from her face. “You led an insurgency, near the end. You tried to prevent the banishment, but the saints were too strong for you. They forced you through. Kalmaroth. That was your name.”
He flinched, as if the word were a struck fist. “Do not ever say that name again,” he said, very softly. “It is no longer mine.”

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Corien · Rielle Dardenne
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Cselekményleírást tartalmazó szöveg

“The empirium spoke to me. It showed me…”
After a moment, he prompted her. “What did it show you?”
“Horrible things,” she whispered. “Things that make me doubt my own mind. Things that make me want to run far from here and never stop running, not until I fly apart.”
And if she did, the dark part of her mind whispered, if she did run, if she disappeared into the far world where no one could find her, not even Corien, then Audric could be a king without distractions, and she could be free of his court, his city, the people who wanted her and hated her all at once.
“Stay with me,” he murmured, as if sensing her conflict. He touched his brow to hers. “Stay with me, Rielle.”
“I’m here,” she said, her voice thin, and then she had to duck her head to hide her face from him, for she could not bear to see the love shining so plainly in his eyes. If he looked for much longer into hers, he would see the truth of her laid bare—the lives she had taken. The lies she had told.
The doubt growing like a restless storm in her heart.
Her mind slowly tearing itself in two.

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Audric Courverie · Rielle Dardenne
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Cselekményleírást tartalmazó szöveg

“Two Queens will rise,” she said. “Did you know, Garver, that Audric wants to marry me? To show everyone that the House of Courverie has absolute faith in me, he says. That the crown is loyal to me, as I am to the crown. I will be queen then, a real and true queen. I will be both Sun Queen and queen of Celdaria.”
“Lady Rielle, please don’t cry,” came Simon’s quiet voice.
“I would wager all the power I possess that my child will be a girl,” Rielle said bitterly. “Two Queens will rise. And here we are, rising, bringing with us the very doom that Aryava foretold.”
“Forget that damned prophecy and listen to me,” said Garver, taking her hands firmly in his. “You’re breathing too fast and too shallowly. Listen to the sound of my voice, and breathe when I tell you.”
She wrenched herself free of him. “One of blood. One of light. Which do you think I am, Garver? Do I have the power to save the world, or destroy it? And which will my daughter be? And would it be kinder to everyone if I turned myself over to the people who hate me and let them destroy us both before it’s too late?”

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Garver Randell · Rielle Dardenne · Simon Randell
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Cselekményleírást tartalmazó szöveg

“I defended you,” Audric said again, his voice a mere whisper. “Anyone who thought you might be the Blood Queen, the doom we’ve feared for centuries, I was the first to tell them they were wrong. That you could control your power, that we could trust you, that you would keep us safe. And now you’ve proven them all right. You’re the monster Aryava foretold. A traitor and a liar.”
And swiftly, all at once, like the strike of a storm illuminating a dark field, Rielle realized he was right.

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Audric Courverie · Rielle Dardenne