The Bloody and the Damned

The Bloody and the Damned

Author: Becca Coffindaffer Listening Length: 11h 41m

An assassin with outlawed, magical abilities will do anything to get their kidnapped sisters back in this dystopic-fantasy standalone, perfect for fans of Arcane and Iron Widow. Mercy has no place here. On Trinity, where the privileged live in the skies and the rest fight for water below, you do what you can to survive...

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Chapter Twenty-Five

“I SYMPATHIZE WITH THOSE WHO DOUBT THE EXISTENCE OF WHAT OTHERS HAVE DUBBED AN AALDENBERG KNOT (OR KNOTS, AS MAY BE THE CASE). I CAN ONLY SAY THAT, IN MY EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS ON TRINITY, I HAVE GROWN EVER MORE SURE THAT OUR WORLD HOLDS DEEP SECRETS, AND THE AALDENBERG KNOT IS LIKELY LEAST AMONG THEM.”

I leave Halle snuggled underneath that yellow quilt, her arm around Kelda, and move through the row house on stealthy footsteps.

Halle and Kelda and I need a plan for getting out of here as quickly as possible.

One or two of the Bookers’ automaton mounts would be ideal—that way we could move freely, without being tied down—but I’m not sure how keen they will be to hand them over and I don’t know how competent I would be at steering them in the first place.