Shardless (Tempris #1)

-From the personal notes of Ivain Castaro, Marquess of Tempris

The 26 th day of the month Luna, during the 247 th year of the Empty Throne

They’re doing it again—right in front of me. Eleven years and Skye and Taly still don’t think that anyone has caught on to their little game.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why they felt the need to invent their own language. It was primitive in its beginning stages, but now, I dare say, the lexicon has become quite sophisticated. Every time they start this nonsense up again, I always find myself asking the same question: why tapping? They’re both intelligent individuals—surely, they could’ve come up with something less obvious .