Your desire for vengeance will cause countless deaths, child,_ she said, pointing a crooked finger at Rhylie. __nnocents will be caught up in your maelstrom, their lives torn apart. People you have never met, and will never know will die beneath your shadow if you do not stop. You tear the galaxy asunder with each step you take towards Vorcia.
I,_ he said, a faint note of derision in his voice, __m the least favored scion of our ruling house, House Mara Sant._ He was from Brontes, then. Which might explain the eyes_she thought again of certain differences, and suppressed a shudder. __ am a Prince of the Blood,_ he continued, sounding both embittered and proud, __hird in line for the Dragon Throne, and grand nephew to the Emperor. Owing to a_political dispute, I am now also an exile. Presented with a choice between resigning my commission in the na-vy and leaving to become governor of a mining planet and staying to face my uncle__ as-sassins_._ He shrugged slightly, as if the choice were of no consequence.___political dispute?___ gambled,_ he said bluntly. __ lost.___ou seem_sanguine,_ she remarked, surprise blunting the instinct to guard her tongue.__e shouldn__ have let me live._ That anyone could discuss their own murder with such cold calculation horrified her. He horrified her. She chewed her lip, digesting all that he__ told her: not merely a naval officer, but a prince__nd a maverick one at that. She wondered what he could have done.__o you see,_ he finished, ____ no more free than you._ He laughed, then, but without humor. __e can be prisoners together. I am en route to a wretched planet called Tarsonis to assume governorship and as you have no other, more pressing engagement, you are coming with me.
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I,_ he said, a faint note of derision in his voice, __m the least favored scion of our ruling house, House Mara Sant._ He was from Brontes, then. Which might explain the eyes_she thought again of certain differences, and suppressed a shudder. __ am a Prince of the Blood,_ he continued, sounding both embittered and proud, __hird in line for the Dragon Throne, and grand nephew to the Emperor. Owing to a_political dispute, I am now also an exile. Presented with a choice between resigning my commission in the na-vy and leaving to become governor of a mining planet and staying to face my uncle__ as-sassins_._ He shrugged slightly, as if the choice were of no consequence.___political dispute?___ gambled,_ he said bluntly. __ lost.___ou seem_sanguine,_ she remarked, surprise blunting the instinct to guard her tongue.__e shouldn__ have let me live._ That anyone could discuss their own murder with such cold calculation horrified her. He horrified her. She chewed her lip, digesting all that he__ told her: not merely a naval officer, but a prince__nd a maverick one at that. She wondered what he could have done.__o you see,_ he finished, ____ no more free than you._ He laughed, then, but without humor. __e can be prisoners together. I am en route to a wretched planet called Tarsonis to assume governorship and as you have no other, more pressing engagement, you are coming with me.
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