Cast in Firelight by Dana Swift

Author:Dana Swift [Swift, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2021-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

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For the next three days I search for Basu. Partly to make sure he is okay, partly to wrest any other details from him. But he’s gone. The only report left with his name on it confirms he headed for Agsa and was escorted all the way to the border. Which makes sense—that’s what my father told me, too. The gray-haired guard, on the other hand? He’s disappeared. When I request a report on everyone currently employed, Hiren’s father, one of the five rajas of Belwar who help run the Dome Guard, tells me not one profile matches that description. Even the report with Basu’s infraction and truth-spelling case contains no name of the commanding guard who took him in. Saves him a lot of paperwork, my blood.

So I’m left with nothing but threats chiming in my head, Maharaja Naupure still gone, and Jatin Naupure expecting me at the ice door in a few hours.

What’s worse is I haven’t been able to sleep well. The dreams like to come at dawn, not the dead of night, but when my mind drifts in semiconscious anxiety. One could blame what happened on that pier, but the red room dream has haunted me for weeks. The dreams aren’t what one would call normal. I’m not running, falling, or being hunted down by the Vencrin. No, I’m sitting in a blurry red room where my surroundings bleed. It’s always quiet until I’m hissed at to do one thing: “Perform the royal ceremony. Become Adraa Belwar.”

When I try to argue that I am already Adraa Belwar, the voice repeats itself, until the words swirl like the walls. “There’s only one way. I have only one way. Perform the ceremony.”

I awaken one of two ways, shouting or with my throat hurting like I already have been.

Twenty-nine days until my royal ceremony.

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