La Saga de la porteuse d'âme, Tome 4 : Une âme pour l'expiation
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- Crista McHugh (Écrivain)
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Chapter 1
Devarius Tel’Brien knocked his opponent’s sword away and stomped his boot over the blade. “Do you surrender?”
The bright yellow-green halo flashed in Arden’s eyes, and she grinned. “Never.”
A ball of magic exploded from her free hand and connected with the center of his chest. His muscles tensed, paralyzing the air in his lungs, before going limp. Dev staggered back a few steps, giving Arden enough room to break free and raise her saber again.
He gulped down a few breaths, the burn from her spell easing with each inhalation. “This is combat practice, Trouble, not magic practice.”
“You never said I couldn’t use magic,” she said matter-of-factly, flipping her golden braid back from her shoulder. Her eyes danced with laughter. “You just said to treat you like an enemy who wanted to kill me.”
Which, based on her history, was a list already a mile long. Since she’d become the Soulbearer, she’d been hunted by a necromancer, a god, and an army of invaders from another kingdom.
“Besides, if you wanted this to be real combat practice, you wouldn’t have cast a spell to dull our blades.” She pointed to the white mist that surrounded the sharp edges of her saber.
“I did it to protect you.” His strength returned, and he mirrored her en garde posture. “If I hadn’t, you’d be a bloody mess by now.”
“Are you sure it’s not the other way around, Dev?”
She lunged at him with such speed that he barely had time to deflect her attack. Even though he tried to remain serious, the corners of his mouth involuntarily rose into a tight-lipped grin. In just over two years, Arden had grown from a skinny barmaid who could barely handle a knife without cutting herself to a sparring partner fit for any knight in the empire. If he hadn’t been so focused on blocking her attacks, he might’ve marveled at the way her blade sliced through the air like a striking cobra or the way she moved around the room, her body twisting and turning with the grace of a dancer.
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La Saga de la porteuse d'âme, Tome 4 : Une âme pour l'expiation
- Canada : 2017-12-08 (Français)
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- La saga de la porteuse d’âme, Tome 4 : Une âme pour l’expiation - Français
- A Soul for Atonement - Anglais
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Arden la porteuse d’âme a combattu un dieu, a vaincu un nécromancien et a chassé des envahisseurs ennemis de sa terre natale. À présent, la seule récompense à laquelle elle aspire consiste à épouser l’homme qui a été à ses côtés durant toutes ces épreuves -- son chevalier protecteur, Dev. Mais alors que sa fin heureuse se profile à l’horizon, un crime du passé revient les hanter... et le châtiment est la mort de Dev.
Un siècle plus tôt, un porteur d’âme a volé une relique sacrée aux Ornathiens, et à présent leur roi exige un sacrifice du sang de Dev pour lever la malédiction qui pèse sur son peuple. Trouver la relique est le seul espoir d’Arden si elle veut libérer Dev de la prison du roi. Mais d’abord, elle doit duper la seule personne qui sait où se trouve la relique -- Loku, le dieu du Chaos dont l’âme vit en elle.
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