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Kaz's eyes narrowed. "Sturmhond."

"It's a trick," said Van Eck. "It's another one of Brekker's tricks." He broke away from his guards and rushed at Wylan, but Jesper stepped in front of him, grabbing him by the shoulders and holding him at bay with straight arms. "You'll destroy everything I've built, everything my father and his father built. You-“

"I am grateful you're alive," he said. “I am grateful you're beside me. I am grateful that you're eating." She rested her head on his shoulder. "You're better than waffles, Matthias Helvar."

"I just don't get it. I've spent my whole life hiding the things I can't do. Why run from the amazing things you can do?"

Reading Crooked kingdom and…

They'd been two farm boys, missing their father, lost in this city.

Jesper couldn't quite believe he was having a conversation with the Sturmhond. The privateer was a legend. He'd broken countless blockades on behalf of the Ravkans, and there were rumors that . . . "Do you really have a flying ship?" blurted Jesper.