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“You have a Tailor,” [Alina] said. Sturmhond winced. 

“I am not a Tailor,” Tolya said angrily. 

“No, Tolya, your gifts lie elsewhere,” Sturmhond said soothingly. “Mostly in the celebrated fields of killing and maiming.”

-Siege and Storm Ch.8

“The creature’s back breached the waves, its body cutting through the water in a sinuous arch, rainbows sparking off the iridescent scales on its back. Rusalye.”

Siege and Storm, Ch.3

“I just lost thirteen good men,” Sturmhond said quietly. “Don’t tell me it was all for nothing.”

Siege and Storm, Ch.5

“I knew what had to come next. That isn’t true, said a voice in my head. You can walk away. Leave it be. Again, I had the sense that things were moving too fast. But I couldn’t just throw an amplifier like this back into the sea. The dragon had already given up its life”

Siege and storm, Ch.5

“This was like nothing I’d felt before. It was an animal, a creature of infinite fire that breathed with the stag’s strength and the sea whip’s wrath. It coursed through me, stealing my breath, breaking me up, dissolving my edges, until all I knew was light.

Too much, I thought in desperation. And at the same time, all I could think was, More.”

Alina, Siege and Storm Ch. 7