Total pages in book: 247
Estimated words: 231436 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1157(@200wpm)___ 926(@250wpm)___ 771(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 231436 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1157(@200wpm)___ 926(@250wpm)___ 771(@300wpm)
Reaver revels in the battle, taking down many and commenting on his prowess.
Poppy calls the Shadow Temple the Temple of Nyktos, and Reaver corrects her. He tells her they were the Sun Temple for the Primal of Life and the Shadow Temple for the Primal of Death when it was Lasania. He confirms that the Shadow Temple is in the Garden District, however, near the Luxe, and he is familiar enough with the city to know the way.
He tells Poppy that Nyktos only sat on the throne for a short while. When the candles start responding to Poppy, he tells her that she carries the blood of the Primal and she’s in his Temple, then teases her for being special.
Reaver suggests that they use the spell to find where to go next to find Casteel and spins as Malik arrives. He reminds them all that they don’t have time for distractions and says to either kill him or make sure he can’t betray them.
After they find Casteel, Reaver agrees with Poppy that Callum should be dead and helps keep Casteel in check by removing the shadowstone shackles from his ankles and neck but putting the bone chains on him.
Poppy later asks if he can break the chains around Cas’s wrists. He does. When Cas is more himself after, he introduces himself and says he’s glad Cas didn’t bite him, and he didn’t have to burn him alive.
When Cas reveals that the Revenant, Millie, is Poppy’s sister, Reaver is stunned. He asks if Ires is her father, too, and then remarks that the Consort will be pissed.
Later, he confirms that Poppy is, indeed, a Primal born of mortal flesh. He says he thought she knew but then realized she doesn’t know much of anything. She was able to summon the draken and has the Primal notam. He tells them there’s no danger of her not surviving her Culling now and then congratulates her on knowing now and being able to prepare.
As they talk more, Reaver tells Poppy that only a Primal can create the mist and that her eyes are a sign that she’s close to completing her Culling. He says the streaks of eather may remain, or her eyes could go full silver like Nyktos’s.
When Casteel asks how a Primal is born to a mere god and of mortal flesh, Reaver says he can’t answer that but tells them that Poppy is the first Primal born since the Primal God of Life, and only the Primal of Life can answer that.
Reaver wonders why the Blood Queen thinks Poppy will destroy the realms. When the talk turns to the prophecy, Reaver tells them it isn’t bullshit, not when spoken by a god. And then explains that the goddess Penellaphe was close to the Fates.
After Malik shares his story about being there the night Poppy was attacked in Lockswood and mentions seeing the Consort in Poppy’s eyes as a child, Reaver swears. He tells them the Consort sleeps fitfully and that things happen sometimes that partly wake her.
At Blaz and Clariza’s, Nektas opens the back door to guards and roasts them. When Callum enters, he tells him he’s about to find out for sure what Reaver is and puffs smoke from his nostrils. He’s told to stand down but turns to Callum just as he snaps forward and wounds Kieran.
On the way to Padonia, Reaver leads the horse with an unconscious Malik. After they eat a little bit, he asks them if they’re really worried about the curse Callum put on Kieran—he assumes Kieran, Cas, and Poppy are Joined. He tells them the essence Callum used had Kolis’s stench.
Outside Padonia, Poppy releases Reaver to do as he pleases, and he joins his brethren, flying above the city, their calls echoing through the valley.
After scouting for the ruins, he arrives just in time to join the fight with the Craven. He takes out several trees and incinerates the remaining threats. Once things die down, he tells them the ruins are a day’s ride north.
When talk turns to Malec, Reaver tells them that the documented O’Meer was not Malec’s last name, and if he did have one, it would have been Mierel, which was the Consort’s mortal last name.
As they approach the ruins, Reaver mentions that he didn’t see the mountain of rock from the air and figures it must be where the forest is the thickest. When the Gyrms attack, he warns the wolven not to bite them, saying there’s no blood in them, but there is a poison that will eat them from the inside out. He elaborates and says the ones attacking are Sentries, which are like Hunters and not like the other kind of Gyrms they’ve fought before. Fire won’t work on them. He also mentions they’re filled with snakes.
Poppy asks him if eather will work on them, and he tells her it will from her, but only because she’s a Primal about to complete her Culling.