Crown of Earth and Sky by Emberly Ash EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Emberly Ash
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V E Y K A
I should have died in the womb.
The wisdom of the Ancestors holds that the more powerful twin eats the
other before birth, incorporating their power and growing stronger.
Our kind are vicious even before the first breath.
In the last millennia, only a handful of twins have been born to the
elementals. My brother and I were among them.
The same brother stood over me now, Excalibur gleaming in his meaty
fist, ready to strike the killing blow. He lifted one pale golden brow in
perfect parallel with his smirk. His swirling storm-blue eyes—my eyes—
sneered down at me. Superiority and satisfaction were twin beads of sweat
running down from his temple.
“This is the end, Veyka,” he crooned, shifting his weight subtly. I knew
the stance, had seen him assume it dozens of times over the years. He was
about to perform an execution.
“So soon? I thought you liked to play with your victims?” I ground out,
hands aching for the blades that weren’t there. He’d knocked one of my
knives away, far enough it disappeared into a cloud of red dust somewhere
in the courtyard. Out of reach.
But the other…
I knew my best chance was to get him talking. My prideful brother
loved the sound of his own voice. How often had I heard him boast with his
friends, rolling syllables around in his dark timbre, plotting which male or
female he would pursue next?
“There is no sport in it when the opponent is so overmatched,” he
growled.
“And yet, that did not stop you from challenging me to begin with.” The
other knife was under my left hip, pinned. If I moved an inch for it, he’d gut
me.
“A worthless opponent is an opponent, nonetheless.”
The plan formed in my mind, each step as graceful and choreographed
as a dance. “Only someone deeply insecure in their crown would think so.”
His hand loosened on the golden hilt. Slightly. Almost imperceptibly.
But that is the thing about twins. We can perceive the imperceptible
about one another. And I was faster than my brother.
I tightened the muscles in my abdomen and swung my legs outward,
connecting hard with the sensitive insides of his knees. It wasn’t enough to
knock him down, but the half second it took him to readjust his grip on that
Ancestors-damned sword was all the time I needed. My feet were under me.
I palmed the knife that seconds before had been trapped under my body.
“Crafty bitch,” he muttered, loud enough only for my delicately pointed
ears.
“I am flattered,” I said, darting a step forward and then back again, out
of range. Reminding him just how fast I was—and how dangerous, now
that I had a knife back in my hand. “Bow for me, dear brother, and I will let
you walk away with your pride intact.”
Murder shone in those sapphire eyes, turned dark with ire. I wondered if
mine were the same just then, or if they’d taken on a gleam of their own.
Our eyes were the only likeness between us, despite the accident of our
birth.
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