โI would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.โ
๐ธ๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐
A spy known as the Wraith.
โMaybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you werenโt chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.โ
๐น๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐ข
A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager.
โMaybe he was the same. A bullet in a chamber, spending his whole life waiting for the moment he would have direction.โ
๐ฝ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐
A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.
โFear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.โ
โThey fear you as I once feared you," he said. "As you once feared me. We are all someone's monster, Nina.โ
๐๐ข๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐ด๐๐
A runaway with a privileged past.
โUntil this moment, Wylan hadn't quite understood how much they meant to him. His father would have sneered at these thugs and thieves, a disgraced soldier, a gambler who couldn't keep out of the red. But they were his first friends, his only friends, and Wylan knew that even if he'd had his pick of a thousand companions, these would have been the people he chose.โ๐๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ, ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ.