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56f20a4
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"Cress?" "It's beautiful out there." A hesitation, before, "Could you be more specific?" "The sky is gorgeous, intense blue color." She pressed her fingers to the glass and traced the wavy hills on the horizon. "Oh, good. You've really narrowed it down for me." "I'm sorry, it's just..." She tried to stamp down the rush of emotion. "I think we're in a desert." "Cactuses and tumbleweeds?" "No just a lot of sand. It's kind of orangish-gold, with hints of pink, and I can see tiny clouds of it floating above the ground, like...like smoke." "Piles up in lots of hills?" "Yes, exactly! And it's beautiful." Thorne snorted. "If this is how you feel about a desert, I can't wait until you see your first real tree. Your mind will explode."
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thorne
desert
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Marissa Meyer |
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18c08c0
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"A kiss from the Captain would probably melt my central processor." Thorne winked at her. "Oh trust me. It would."
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thorne
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Marissa Meyer |
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247390f
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"He leaned forward to inspect her closer. "Is that all hair?" ... Sudden, overwhelming panic clawed up Cress's throat. With a squeak, she ducked out of view of the camera and scrambled beneath the desk. Her back struck the wall with a thud that rattled her teeth. She crouched there, skin burning hot and pulse thundering as she took in the room before her-- the room that he was now seeing too, with the rumpled bedcovers and the mustached man on all the screens telling her to grab her imaginary partner and swing them around. "Wha--where'd she go?" Thorne's voice came to her through the screen. "Honestly, Thorne." A girl. Linh Cinder? "Do you ever think before you speak?" "What? What did I say?" " 'Is that all hair?' " "Did you see it? It was like a cross between a magpie nest and ball of yarn after it's been mauled by a cheetah." A beat. Then, "A cheetah?" "It was the first big cat that came to mind."
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humor
cress
thorne
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Marissa Meyer |
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bff8e0e
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"Knees suddenly weak, she reached for his forearms to stabilize herself. "You came for me." He beamed, looking for all the world like a selfless, daring hero. "Don't sound so surprised." Dropping the cane, he pulled her into a crushing embrace that tore her away from Wolf and lifted her clean off the floor. "It turns out you are worth a lot of money on the black market." --
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humor
love
cress
thorne
moment
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Marissa Meyer |
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96f970e
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"Hello?" A girl again. "I know you can hear me. I'm sorry my friend is such a wing nut. You can just ignore him." "That's usually what we do," said the other feminine voice."
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scarlet
cress
thorne
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Marissa Meyer |
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9aa6a95
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"I don't like to think of it as 'stolen'. They have no proof that I didn't plan on giving it back." "You're kidding, right?" He shrugged. "You have no proof either." She squinted back at him. "Were you planning on giving it back?" "Maybe." An orange light blinked on in the corner of Cinder's vision-her cyborg programming picking up on the lie."
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humor
thorne
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Marissa Meyer |
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2295449
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"An animal?" Thorne said, and she realized he'd been waiting for her to further explain what she was seeing. "It has long legs and horns and...and it's beautiful." "Oh, good, we're back to this, then."
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thorne
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marissa meyer |
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4d5fd03
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Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately.
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jealousy
prince-kai
thorne
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Marissa Meyer |
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2a4e0d9
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"If you honestly believe that," said Thorne, stowing the gun again, "then you really don't recognize true value when you see it."
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marissa-meyer
thorne
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Marissa Meyer |
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a5d0799
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"I passed out from stress? That's it?" "I believe the princess term is fainted," said Thorne."
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funny
thorne
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Marissa Meyer |
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fb3eb01
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"Captain! To your left there's a Lunar guard and on your right is a doctor who's running tests on Lunars and I'm being held by one of Levana's wolf hybrids and please be careful!" Thorne took a step back into the hallway a gun from his waistband. He spent a moment swiveling the barrel of the gun in each direction, but nobody moved to attack him. With some surprise, Cress realized that the operative's grip had weakened. "Er..." Thorne furrowed his brow, aiming the gun somewhere near the window. "Could you describe all those threats again because I feel like I missed something."
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humor
cress
thorne
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Marissa Meyer |
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d0dc707
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Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
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blood-and-gold
vampire-chronicles
thorne
curse
gift
remembering
memory
vampires
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