The fine art of elven bad decisions™ 

🔴 Step 1: Receive orders.

🟡 Step 2: Ignore them completely.

SPOILERS FOR ONYX STORM

We have to ask ourselves if xaden’s ability to sense the venin will become more sensitive the more he turns.

Is now really the time for an intimate moment!

immediately proven right as xaden nearly channels from the headboard

Violet downplays the fact that xaden had just channelled without really needing to think about it. She comes across as very delusional but I guess that's just what love does to a girl.

Finally Violet has received a conduit. Fellow cadets can finally breathe easy now that the chances of Violet killing them accidentally have been reduced dramatically.

Even though Mira comes with the news that the runed disks have been figured out, in this series you can never have a good event happen without it immediately being followed up by a world-altering revelation. For this chapter, it's the fact that the wards will only be reliably stable for the next six months. Stakes have been raised because NO ONE is getting along, peace talks are failing, and Violet is going on an assumed long-term quest so will be no use if the wards fall before she returns, and i. am. STRESSED. OUT!