Starside

Starside

Author: Alex Aster Listening Length: 20h 1m
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Enter the enchanting and deadly world of Starside, where swords have magic and power isn’t inherited – it’s claimed, from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster. Hundreds of years ago, a brutal war split a land in two. Starside is the realm of magic and immortals –the descendants of the gods, living in ...

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Chapter 25

The boat is heavier than it looks. The pebbled dirt crunches beneath its hull as I drag it to the edge of the starless-black water, the sound swallowed by the rain.

It must be afternoon, but it looks like evening, the sun still smothered by storm clouds. Raker is sequestered in a room on the opposite side of the ruins. He hasn’t surfaced in the hours since he left me by the hearth.

My time with him is over. That’s clear. He’s given up on me. He’s decided I’m not worth the map or being a fucking mule for the sword he has already claimed in his own mind, and I won’t wait around for him to kill me and take it for good.

In this storm—I have a chance to run. From Raker. From my own shame and guilt.