Skyshade (The Lightlark Saga Book 3) by Alex Aster

Author:Alex Aster
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Amulet Books
Published: 2024-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

MIRROR

Her heart thundered in her chest. This didn’t make any sense. Why did her father have an island with her name on it, when he had lived here before he had ever even met her mother?

Isla.

It had to be a coincidence. Her name meant island. Perhaps it didn’t mean anything at all.

But what if it did?

Isla removed that sheet of map from the wall, rolled it up, and placed it in the pocket of her cape. She moved around the room, to see if there was anything that could help her now, anything that might indicate the portal, but all she saw were letters between him and family members, detailed maps of Nightshade, and books upon books about the other realms. She flipped through one about Wildlings, read the first sentence of the middle chapter, and nearly snorted.

Wildling women have fangs that curve out of their mouths like pythons, they have claws like panthers—they drink blood in buckets.

Is that what her father had thought of the Wildlings before meeting her mother? She wondered for a moment about their story. How they met, and where, and how they had fallen in love.

Part of it she could guess, given the details she already knew. Her father had escaped with the sword, using the portaling device he had stolen from Grim. Somehow, he must have ended up on the Wildling newland. Her mother must have happened upon him, and, for some reason, they had chosen not to kill each other.

Isla swallowed, realizing how closely it matched her own story. She had somehow ended up on Nightshade, using the starstick. Grim had happened upon her. And—though she had stabbed a blade through his chest during that first meeting—they had decided not to kill each other.

Yet.

Life and darkness. Opposites in so many ways. One power created, the other destroyed. It seemed like a pairing that could never work, not really. Perhaps they were too different. Perhaps her own parents’ joining had been wrong.

She remembered what the prophet-followers had said, before their death. A girl will be born. She will either destroy the world . . . or save it.

She wouldn’t be the cause of more destruction. She would find a way to close the portal and buy herself more time. She would use that time to change her fate.

This map . . . it had to mean something.

There was only one way to find out.

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