Nightingale Flashcards
All I needed was to make this last leap over the museum’s west wing, then drop down to pick the lock on the window.
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People called the folk who worked in the aether shops “haunts for a good reason: they looked like living ghosts.
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Take in a clutch of young girls from the orphanage, then squeeze every scrap of copper and silver out of us that she could.
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I needed coin and no one was going to notice a few missing trinkets.
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His spindly body was bent nearly double, as he traced something - rune marks?- in an oval around the blade.
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That was why she was so fired up about making new laws to protect workers.
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Rust it.
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It was encased in a shimmering prison of ice.
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I yelped as the weapon gently lowered me onto the rooftop.
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The head and beak curved out along the base of the blade, glittering with two deep blue sapphire eyes.
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You don’t understand the sacrifices I’ve made in order to teach you children the skills you need to survive in this world.
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It was just enough to make the locket at the end slide out from her lacy collar.
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I had to find a way to pay her back.
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So far it had been careful not to slice me, but just having it there was throwing me off.
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Not that I was some sort of noble hero who only stole from nasty folk who deserved it.
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Yes, right, you were helpful getting me out of that mess, but you also got me into it in the first place, I said.
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I doubted anyone had noticed me yet, but that would change if a great hulking statue fell over the edge of the building.
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I was the one who’d nearly gotten her killed.
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It bobbed up, doing a sort of pirouette over my head, then dipping as if bowing to the crowd.
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The copper web had plastered me up against the street cleaner, trapping me between two of its vicious-looking rollers.
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Maybe it might even be willing to stay with me, a nobody thief.
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If there was one thing in the whole world that I could never, ever be, it was a hero.
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You’re the one who set it off with your magic web and “unexpected effects.”
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You summoned a freezing bolt last night!
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Common sense caught up with me, dragging me back into the world where I had debts and couldn’t, wouldn’t trust anyone.
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Either way, when you see it light up, come meet me on the roof of the Royal Museum.
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She was still too young to enlist as a cadet, but I knew she was saving every scrap of coin she could to pay the substantial fees for the entrance exam and uniform.
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Well, then, I guess you’d better make it a really excellent present.
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A minute later I was waking back out of the shop carrying a lovely pale green hatbox containing the blue cap, minus its star.
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After years of feeling helpless, like I had to wring every tiny bit of good fortune out of the wet rag of my life, it was nice to have the power to do something.
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But the miners are refusing to enter the mine because they say there’s a monster in it.
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It’s my prototype convertible ascot rain cloak.
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If you have power, and you don’t use it to do good, you’re as much the enemy as the folks who use their power to do ill.
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Call it magic if you want, but it’s really just science with rules we don’t completely understand.
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But his dreams were like dazzlebugs: so bright and flashy that they kept him from seeing the rest of the world like it really was.
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The vortex generator gave a loud pop and opened, revealing a whirling twist of darkness.
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I’m going to run some tests on this red steel.
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Squinting, I could just barely make out the symbols etched into the blade itself.
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Where two sapphire eyes had once winked at me, now there was only one.
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Clear tubes spiraled in the air and looped out along the walls, weaving in complex patterns as they carried the bubbling torrent of soda here and there.
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Before I could move, before I could even shout out a warning, he tore something from the very heart of the device: an intricate contraption of tubes and crystals that pulsed with an aetheric glow.
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I gritted my teeth, trying to spot Dark Spectacles, but I’d lost him in the bubble-filled chaos.
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My flowing black cloak snapped, abruptly closing around me like a clamshell.
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Didn’t you just promise your brother to give up heroing?
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It’s big enough to boil a watermelon.
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All you need to do is fly around the city until it starts making noise, and then go in the direction that makes it get louder!
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As I swung the tracker in a slow arc toward the left, the wailing increased.
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The tubes were made of crystal, which meant I could see very clearly the swirl of glimmering dust inside.
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I set the gold rook down beside the receipt with a satisfying clunk.
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It’s worth what I say it is, if you want to get your mother’s locket back.
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So if we follow the tubes, we could figure out where the waste is coming from.
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Project Red will be fully functional on the day of the coronation.
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The union will be the perfect scapegoat, and we might just kill two birds with one crimson stone.
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By the time he’d given a startled yelp, his entire torso and legs were sheathed in ice.
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We never know our own strength until the world tests us, Mum had told me once.
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Aside from the wheels, he looked like any other dog, slobbery and furry and far too eager to love anyone he could.
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They were the most comfortable, most lovely clothes I’d ever worn.
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Because being his friend was so impossible.
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The symbols represent different qualities and properties - ingredients - and when you combine them in the right way, you generate effects.
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It was late by the time I crept back into the boardinghouse.
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The last thing I needed was to accidentally show off my other new outfit.
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I, er, might’ve slipped a batch of sleeping powder into her favorite perfume atomizer the other day.
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I flung the door open and charged in to find the other girls gathered there, all of them staring in horror at a frail, luminous gleam that drifted near the center of the room.
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Was I imagining things, or were we flying there for a moment?
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And the good new is, I think I managed to stabilize everyone for now.
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Why would it be dangerous for me to know I’m your best friend?
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There’s a line between making the world better, versus just making it what you want it to be.
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If there was ever a moment for my third power to show itself, this was it.
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Except…there was someone lying on the floor, not far from me, lanky limbs spread-eagled across the tiles, held in place by a rope-net.
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Except…there was someone lying on the floor, not far from me, lanky limbs spread-eagled across the tiles, held in place by a rope-net.
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The runes flared so bright, my eyes filled with stars.
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The new factory will be ready tomorrow, just in time for the coronation jubilee.
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The fingers around my chest tightened.
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Dimly, I heard something that sounded like a growl, followed by ferocious yipping, then a crackling clap like thunder.
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If I couldn’t do the same, then I had lost something a lot more valuable than gold.
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Assuming your connection rune works, I’ll be ready to broadcast my article over the ephemeras.
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It’s better than sacrificing your own brother for the sake of power!
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But I was a pretty good thief for the two years before that, and right now, that’s what really matters.
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Don’t worry, it’s just a minor beverage malfunction!
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It was my choice.
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The only question was: Did I believe I had the strength to try?
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That was where I needed to strike.
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Reunited, our bond was even stronger than it had been before.
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Metal clashed on metal, sending me flying away like a pitiful bird bouncing off a glass window.
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I’m pretty sure the only way to unmake him now is to hit all six of them at the same exact time.
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Five more gems winked up, black, white, gold, green, red.
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Because the world needed more than just one hero.
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