The Never King (Vicious Lost Boys Book 1)

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He could have ended Vallos’s life there and then. Both of them, and the gathered, braying crowd, realized it. But he chose otherwise. He had seen too much blood in his life by that point. He had pushed Vallos away. Everyone was in awe, for no one had bested Vallos in a fight before. This newcomer had done it within seconds. From then on he gained a new name: Hell’s King. That was the beginning of his dominion in Hell’s Keep.

You came all the way here to tell me this,’ Xavir said softly. ‘You risked your own life. Did they brand you too?’And worse, the fae queen and Captain Hook are ready to fight for control of Neverland and they will stop at nothing to get what they want. Why can you not do what is a simple task for a sister of your advanced learning?’ Yvindris’s words were neither soft nor harsh, just the same emotionless monotone that most of the old matrons used with her. Only Birgitta was any different. From her sleeve Yvindris produced a pale-blue witchstone and handed it to Elysia, before gesturing with a crooked finger towards the fountain. ‘With this water elemental, I want you to stop the flow today. Do not do anything with it. Merely stop it. See if you remembered the lines of text from yesterday.’

Winne Darling ends up in Neverland, and she meets not only Peter Pan but the Lost Boys; the twins, Kas and Bash, and then there’s Vane. The twins Kas and Bash are curious about her, and Vane wants to scare and/or break her. Peter Pan has told them all not to touch her. None of them are supposed to touch the Darlings.Something wailed like a banshee’s scream and a torchbearer’s light in the distance was extinguished.

Of course. Look, spy, whatever you were out there –’ Xavir gestured with finger to the west – ‘does not apply in here.’ Admittedly, I took an elixir before they pressed the iron to my skin,’ Landril said, with half a smile. ‘I felt nothing, dammit, but I could smell my own flesh cooking.’ Looks a lot better than it did,’ Xavir interrupted calmly. ‘Don’t be looking for battles over things as trivial as this.’ No one was able to answer him. The watchman stared through his tears. Nearby someone screamed in mourning. Jorund daubed woad to his face within the cramped confines of his watchman’s house and considered the grim situation ahead. Those too young and too old to participate in the coming battle were escorted into the nearby caves – Jorund’s young, pregnant wife, Carmissa, among them. All who remained were willing fighters determined to protect their homes.Because when night falls, he comes for me . And this time, the Never King and the Lost Boys aren’t willing to let me go. I won’t spoil what happens in the series (for the most part), but there are some more changes to the original tale.

Why did you, spy, come to find me? You only work on others’ behalf, so who sent you?’ Xavir demanded. Nations expand and retract like lungs, spymaster. Nothing new here, especially where the clans are concerned. We’re people bred to fight. You didn’t come here to tell me that all was prosperous with the world. For two centuries, all of the Darling women have disappeared on their 18th birthday. Sometimes they’re gone for only a day, some a week or a month. But they always return broken.

He could hear Davlor still muttering curses about Gallus. As a relatively new inmate, Davlor could not know of the sheer effort to keep some form of peace among the gangs, otherwise there would be blood every day.