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“Not all Eyriens view honor as so they can bend to suit themselves,” Lucivar said cautiously

FalonarThe name of Lucivar’s for in the air between them

Then the one

“Look,” Dae andI fell out of a damn tree I’m entitled to piss and moan And I feelinadequate” Hell’s fire, it bruised his ego to admit that

“You’re not Eyrien, old son,” Lucivar said “You never will be”

“Yes, I know”

“No, I don’t think you do” Lucivar studied him “We knew Daemonar couldn’t stay with us anyns and got his before I” He raked a hand through his black hair “The boy wantedyou His Uncle Daeht—at least in a way he understands yet—but who knowslots of things He doesn’t want you to be Eyrien He wants to be with you because he loves you”

Hearing those words relaxed the knot of expectations he’d inflicted on himself—and filled him arm pleasure

“I’d better get the little beast ho, Lucivar reached for the doorknob, then stopped and looked at Daemon “You really fell out of a tree?”

He sighed “I really did”

“He was up in the tree?”

“I wouldn’t have climbed it for any other reason,” he said dryly

Lucivar’s face was filled with baffled amusement “Didn’t you tell him to come down?”

“Of course I did”

Even more baffled “Since you told him to come down and he didn’t obey, why didn’t you use Craft to haul his ass down? I would have”

CHAPTER 5

TERREILLE

Cassidy closed her eyes and concentrated on breathing

Nerves and excite the people she ruled And the first time people outside the town of Grayhaven would see her First Circle working together as a First Circle

She glanced at Theran Ever since she had found the treasure hidden in the attic at Grayhaven, he had made an obvious effort to act like he wanted to serve in her court But his forced courtesy was a daily re to her the way the other men in her First Circle did

In fact, his effort to serve felt too much like her previous court They had lavished her with forced courtesy too—right before they broke her court and left her to serve another Queen

This visit to Eyota, Ranon’s hoe, was harder for him to accept than it was for the rest of the First Circle They had spent the days prior to this trip discussing the details of as required to guard their Queen in an unfaestions, nothing He had, in fact, voiced none of the concerns that a First Escort should have Was he distancing himself because she had refused to cancel this visit—or because being on a Shalador reserve would e? He was proud to be descended froe that Jared came from Shalador

Then there was Gray, as clinging to her hand despite the fact they were in a Coach that had a driver experienced with controlling a long, enclosed, furnished box designed to ride the Winds, those psychic webs through the Darkness It wasn’t being dependent on so to her Captured at fifteen and given to Dena Nehele’s Queen, he had survived two years of torture before being rescued It had taken courage for hio back to Grayhaven when Theran and Talon had announced they were going to live there with the new Territory Queen And she knew it had taken even e for him to leave Grayhaven and come with her to a place that was unfaers