Dirtyhands, the Bastard of the Barrel.
Kaz Brekker, leader of the Dregs.
Kazimer Rietvald, son of common farmers
And Zander, Darkling, descendant of Aleksander.
Percy Jackson, Hero of Olympus
Perseus, son of Poseidon.
Phoenix, Shifter, enslaved by the King.
And Heartless, the Dregs' rising prodigy, invaluable in a swordfight, and deadly accurate.
Sturmhond, Wolf of the Waves.
Nikolai, young Prince of Ravka.
Prince Lantsov, bastard son of Magnus Opjer and the Queen.
And King Nikolai, innocent, possessed by a golden-eyed immortal from another world.
Inej, Suli lynx
A spider, member of the Dregs.
The Wraith, Dirtyhands' right hand and master of gravity.
And Inej Ghafa, lethal and ghostly, torn between what she has always dreamt of and new revelations about her beloved Kaz.
Piper, one of the heroic Seven.
Pipes, daughter of Aphrodite and charmspeaker.
Miss McLean, child of moviestar Tristan McLean and the goddess of love and beauty.
And the Shadow, newest member of the Dregs and a Charmer.
"I don't speak of my family for more reasons than just bad memories. Yes, that's half of it, but believe me, there's more to the story."
"Like my namesake, I rise from the ashes of the fallen. So, kill me. But do not ever stop looking over your shoulder, King. For I will be back."
"This...wasn't supposed to happen. It wasn't supposed to end this way. And so, I am sorry. But sorry doesn't change what I have done, does it?"
"You speak of forgiveness-how naive. There is no such thing. There is only forgetting, and repentance, and sometimes not even that."
"I'm simply a legend, a nightmare in the dark of night."
"I never got anywhere by doing what people told me I should do or listening to them. I'm not about to start now. Nor ever, really."
"That was unexpected. Then again, when did my life actually go the way I wanted it to? Yeah...that would be never."
"Why didn't I see that coming?"
CURSING.
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