Sublime

So Marsh had come to harvest the man’s power and draw it into the spike.

Pyrrhic

Everything changed, and it went right on changing. A terrible thought when things were good, a comforting one now. Whatever happened, she could be certain that things wouldn’t stay the way they were now. And if she stayed smart and clever and lucky, she’d be able to affect how the next change came. Or take advantage of it.

humankind, he

“Former fiancée.

sinewy

predilection

infallible,”

Chapter Eight