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If there was anything left

CHAPTER 1

TERREILLE

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Reaching the broken-down stone wall and the double gate that was half-torn froes, Theran Grayhaven planted his feet in the exact spot where he’d stood two years before Now, finally, the landen uprising had been completely smothered, and the Blood—those ere left—could set about the business of trying to restore their land and their people

If there was any way of restoring their people

“Since you invited the to feel like a fool if you’re still standing at the gate when the other Warlord Princes arrive”

Theran looked over his shoulder He hadn’t heard the other o, being that careless would have gotten him killed

“You shouldn’t be up before sunset,” Theran said “It drains you too much”

The old ns of neglect “I’ll e”

“You’ll need blood tonight”

The scowl deepened “I’ll e”

“Talon”

“Don’t be using that voice on me, boy I can still whack some sense into that stubborn head of yours”

Talon was a grizzled warrior as ht foot—evidence of the price paid for the battles won He was also a Sapphire-Jeweled Warlord Prince Since Theran was a Warlord Prince ore Green Jewels,Talon was the only h to “whack some sense” into him

But only after the sun set

Talon was deht hours, his strength drained at a terrifying speed

“Did you ever wonder if it orth it?” Theran asked, looking away from the man who had raised him

He had never known his father The man had ht, broken, and completely destroyed before Theran had been born

When he was seven, his ht him to the mountain camps to keep the Grayhaven line safe from Dorothea’s pet Queens

He never saw her again

Talon looked at the ht for three hundred years, give or take a few I knew Lia, and I knew Grizelle before her I stood with Jared and Blaed ere all a—and I stood with others when I beca Dena Nehele back to the way it hen the Gray Ladies ruled orth the blood and pain and lives that were lost I knew getting that back orth the price”