Extraits

“If she were a storm, she could destroy him, and he would never lift a finger to protect himself.”

“And I am here with you. If you have questions, ask them. If you have fears, shed them. If you have doubts, give them to me and I will crush them beneath my heel. If you need help, I will provide it. Even if you only need someone to yell at, I can be that too. And when the time comes that you need someone to trust, I will be that person. I promise.”

“Sometimes you must make answers when there are none.”

“Perhaps death is all that waits for me across the great waters, but better to know death than to choose fear of the unknown.”

“Sometimes she was Aurora. Confident. Clever. Cultured.

Sometimes she was Rora. Afraid. Alone. Ashamed.

And more and more, she was Roar -- bold, brash, and increasingly baffled by the situation in which she found herself. And sometimes she was none of them, lost and adrift somewhere in between, like the wildlands between Stormling cities.”

“No tragedies here, Roar. This world will make you a victim every chance it gets. Don't let it.”

“Confusion leads to knowledge for those brave enough to seek it.”

“But those words were my greatest hope when I was young. To find answers for the unanswerable, a path through the impossible.”

That was what happened to an animal when it was cornered. When the danger was high and adrenaline took over. Reason disappeared then, and the only thing left was an instinct older than blood and bones. And her instinct? It told her two things. To lie. And to run.

“She was a princess without the power to keep her kingdom, a girl whose future had been decided for her. That was the cold hard truth. But it didn't have to be. If she had learned anything last night, it was that the world wasn't as clear-cut as she had always believed. And between the bad choices and the worse choices, perhaps there was another road that she had never known existed until last night.”