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What is in my heart, if not the desire for home? Undoubtedly, I pray for a fixed place in the world like the stars in the sky and the stones within the earth. His question rings in my ears, tolling like the groan of the bronze bells of the island fastness where once I been loved. What do you do now?

The challenge in his eyes is clear cut as diamonds on jeweller's cloth, the edge to his words almost rattling like a coin upon a table. What are you willing to do? How far are you willing to go to?

-Extract from Val 7, BOOK 9 of The Thirteen Kingdoms series

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Francis has his head upon Julian's lap, eyes closed against the fingers combing through his soft golden ringlets. "I am content for now."

Julian's lips twitch at that, amusement flashing behind his gaze. "Liar."

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Sunset is creeping in the diamond-paned windows, everything is soon kisser with sunlight, golden-orange like honey on a warm autumn evening. The ocean churns afar, shimmering like liquid light, dotted with the shadows of black ships upon the sunset tide. The sky is slashed with light and dark, the clouds like bloodstains across a golden banner unfurled in the distant heavens.

-Excerpt from John XII, TTK BOOK 7

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WTW Tarot Prompts - The Star

"It's them you fight for. It's their future you are suffering to save, it's their lives you are fighting for. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, friends and family. That's what we are fighting for."

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The hall glowed with the light of a thousand tapers, some cloistered in lanterns and some perilously clinging to the chandeliers twisting high above. The air was perfumed with a dozen scents, the incense from the wax mingling with colognes, sweet wines and the underlying stench of lies.

The men go about arm in arm with women of ill-reputation dressed as ladies and the women of the court flatter men of middling birth, neither sex questioning the other's standing. Everyone is somebody else tonight, they have adopted another visage, another name. Infidelities go by without note, enemies dance side by side and strangers linger in the gardens to whisper words that will shame them by morning's break.

Nobody knows what truth lays under the masks worn over their features or what heart lays beneath the costume. No, tonight is for illusion and beguilement.

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This is the moment where all the histories converge at once, a thousand strands woven together to finally meet here. How many of our ancestors dreamt of this moment? How many wished to be standing here?

What a jest the gods have played here, I think to myself. Here we stand, one reluctant and one eager both unsuited for the climatic crossing of stars which have brought us here.

He is but a boy, unblooded and green as spring. He wears that crown like a player's prodigy upon a stage, smiling nervously at the heart of the men sent to pull his strings.

- Excerpt from Edward VII, Book 8 of The Thirteen Kingdoms Book series

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Side Characters of TTK ~ Octavia

"I have lost much but I will not lose myself. The world can change all it wants but I will stay true to what I believe and want."

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WTW Tarot Prompts - The Chariot

The charge halts to a stop with a resounding crash, metal screeching on metal and the thud of bodies on earth. Clods of blood-soaked earth spray into the air at the impact, limbs broken from falls bent sickeningly amongst twisted lances and spears. In the mist of cannon smoke, dances the shrieks of the wounded and dying, mangled amongst the chaos.

Your move.

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