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“Your differences only make you weak if you let them, Faythe. It’s when you embrace them that you start to live the life you were meant to lead. Not everyone has that strength.”

“You came back,” she said through a short breath. He broke at the disbelief in her voice, smoothing his palm over the hair at her nape. “I never left.”

Faythe x Reylan

“Faythe singled him out as their leader. Only, he didn’t wear a crown of any kind on top of his silver-white hair, bright even from the moment she fixed eyes on him at the bottom of the stone path.

General Reylan Arrowood, famous white lion of the south.”

Reylan Arrowood

“To anyone else, he looked like a simple foreign merchant—one who would likely deal in unsavory goods from the way he casually picked at his nails with his dagger, holding a demeanor that dared someone to approach.

But he was staring right at her out of the corner of his eye, that damned emerald color piercing right through the blanket of darkness beneath his hood even from across the square.”

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“What’s your name?”

“Nik.”

Nikalias Silvergriff

“The fae people came to call those who did connect ‘mates.’

Even those without an ability have an energy within that longs to be matched. Not just a romantic pairing, not just love—those who connect with their mate, their equal, continue to strengthen their bloodlines as well as each other.”

Faythe x Reylan

“What are you afraid of, my child?” “I am afraid I am not enough.” “I ran when they needed me most.”

Tauria Stagknight

Faythe -

Tauria-

Nik -

King Orlon -

Aurialis (literally anytime she communicates) -