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“I’m watching for the moment they stop being people,” she said.

And somewhere in the black between stars, the dark mother laughed.

The Wolf spat in his face.

Mia Corvere, newly made Blade of the Red Church, had expected the floor of the greatest killing ground in the Republic to be stained the colour of old wine. Instead, it was the pale gold of a Bleak Tide morning, raked smooth by slaves in tunics of rust and grey. The twin suns, Truedark and Easthome, hammered down from a bruised sky, and the shadows beneath the marble benches were sharp as shards of obsidian.

From the darkness of the vomitorium , Mia watched. nevernight chronicles vk

The Wolf finally drew his sword across the Grieve’s throat. The sand drank.

“The moment the man forgets himself.” “I’m watching for the moment they stop being

Mia’s hands were shaking. She didn’t care. “Why did you show me?”

She was not here to kill the Legatus Prime. Not today. Acolyte Ashlinn had that honour, threading poison into the man’s evening wine three leagues away. No, Mia was here to watch. To learn. To count the heartbeats between a gladiator’s swing and the crowd’s roar. Mia Corvere, newly made Blade of the Red