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Ch12 The night before the assault, the camp stank of anticipation. It was a smell Darien recognized—sharp and metallic, like blood before it was spilled. It clung to the men who sharpened their swords by firelight, to the horses who stamped and rolled their eyes at something they sensed but couldn't name, to the very air itself. Three weeks of siege, three weeks of dysentery and short rations and that fucking fog every night, and now—finally—they would have their v
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Ishan is the face of the Seljuk Empire through the books, He and his two brothers, Crown-Prince Khalid ibn Fadil al'Kalijj and Prince Rashid ibn Fadil al'Kalijj are the grandsons of Sultan Kalijj Arslan the Emperor of the Seljuk Empire, Sultan of Rum, and Lord of Levant coast. Ishan is Lord of the Pierced Dawn, his sigil a red sun pierced by a silver spear, on a field of black. The Sorcerer-Prince of Isfahan.
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The man who gave it was not a Seljuk, his warning and the gift of the book was to try to protect Wylan from the threat that Ishan poses.. He was a Magi of the Emperor's employ recognizing what Wylan was.
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Simon and Taine would sit, awkwardly on the side, offering wet wipes and making comments asking if people need to hydrate. Matt will be enthusiastic till he notices Simon sitting out, and then he'd be spending the rest of his time trying to make sure Simon was ok. Tyler would probably be making everyone tea, and making excuses because he's more into just Taine and will be polite complimenting the performances. The pyromancer would turn pink stammer and hide in the corner. Charlie would feign a cramp, and go run it off. leaving Pip and Lynix the only two left in it... and well...
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you never know, they could all end up in a pile if Morgan McNutJob (NHRN) has her way.. once they let her out of Magical Broadmoor.
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Love these, the picture of Bran is always spot on.
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I am nearing the end of Book 3, Jerusalem is in sight. I might press into a fourth book because I am feeling compelled and the muse is very much into this tale. Each book is coming in around 20 chapters. I do, eventually, want to see what happens to them when they come home, not all do. Darien, he's got a dark prophecy to face. I do hope this tale is compelling, and interesting. I enjoy the characters. But the tone is dark in places, it has to be. The backdrop of the Crusade was... brutal.
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It is funny, I am literally writing a chapter about this very subject when this post popped up. The Crusade was a horror show, Cannibalism, fanatics setting themselves on fire, massacre and carnage. And very few made it through all of this with any semblance of themselves intact. Darien is going to be tested, as he rises to a Crusader Lord, and the person who holds his soul, Wylan, isn't about to allow him to get swallowed by it. Darien may be the Warlord of the Silver Boar, Amir of the Judean plateau... but Wylan is the one who fights to keep him human. Trust our little Blind Squire, he's got work to do.
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Matt's such a free soul. And the tea-cup pajamas for Simon, he's been colonized by his Matty.
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Tofu Baby!!!!! WOOOOOO
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Pip's a vibe, Dude, a 90's surfer boy vibe... With an ex who absolutely will not come out of his hole under any circumstances.
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Meet Pip, the solution to the Taine-Tyler-Charlie problem. Because Charlie needs someone who isn't going to hesitate, waffle, and lead him on. (unintentionally because Taine is not doing it on purpose) And Mister Ellis is going to be PISSED. And Lynix... poor POOR Lynix isn't going to know what hit him.... or more specifically HE KNOWS what's about to hit him and he is going to hide. Biblical Angels are weird
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Chapter Five: Meat Charlie couldn't sleep. He'd tried. He'd lain in bed for two hours, staring at the ceiling, listening to Taine's breathing from the other side of the room. But Taine wasn't there—he was still out with Tyler, still processing whatever had happened at the market, still being *taken care of* in the way Charlie couldn't manage. It wasn't jealousy. Or maybe it was, but not the kind Charlie expected. He wasn't jealous of Tyler for having Taine. He was jealous
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Wylan is going to be a nightmare for the European nobility, and it will be spectacular. They expect a fragile, weeping, easily manipulated holy prop. Instead, they get a boy who walks around with a pony-sized warhound that looks ready to eat a duke, completely unimpressed by their silk gowns and titles.
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Never doubt Tyler
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Happy Egg day
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Ch11 The siege of Nicaea was a study in frustration. For six days, the Crusader host had camped before the city's walls, and for six nights, they had watched their victory slip away on a tide of white mist. Every evening, as the sun sank behind the Anatolian hills, a fog would rise from the vast lake that lapped at Nicaea's eastern walls. It came not gradually, not naturally, but all at once—a dense, rolling wall of white that swallowed the water entirely before spreading to
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demented fan. Jacob's mother is Andrew's Cousin. A future story get's into her life. She is married to Brody's brother. (I recommend the Merrickville books next. Starting with Capt. vs Goofball, or if you are bold The Asset and the Liability followed by the Lost and the Damned) for that side of the family
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Taine is dithering, his ethics are clouding what he needs to do. He knows he is going to hurt one or the other, and in trying to protect both of them he is only going to end up hurting both. No, Taine needs to think, and be honest with himself.
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You've never had one from a third rate pub in Warwickshire :: shudders ::
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My thought is that it is a magic tome that wants Wylan to read it. So it's doing the work.
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Deeply narcissistic sex with him. considering it's his own body he's finding attractive... almost as if... by design. Ellis is more devious than I thought
