David Slagle
Nothing could stop us. It would have to catch us first, and we were still running.
The city itself seemed to carry us forward as we slid down into its depths, farther and farther from the sump-scrapper we’d just robbed and left bleeding in the gutter.
Odin Austin Shafer
He looked down at Xayah and shrugged.
“No, you damn idiot!” Xayah screamed. “The matches! The fire sticks behind your ear!”
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
And, as always, instinct was there to catch him. He turned, he roared, and he swung at the closest of the men hauling him away.
Joey Yu
Amanda Jeffrey
John O’Bryan
Guards poured into the room, though not quickly enough to catch the fleeing Akshan, who disappeared through a window into the cool desert night.
Laura Michet
Then he looked up, too.
Whatever curse he bellowed was smothered by the avalanche.
Two curtains of white separated from the cliff tops above them.
Michael Yichao
Even in the darkness, she oozes confidence and charm. All other eyes immediately fly to her.
My mark.
“Well, this is disappointing,” she drawls.
Ian St. Martin
John O'Bryan
The servant hurdled the freshly grown thicket, struggling to catch up to Qiyana, and to maintain the temperature of her mist cloud.
Katie Chironis
Graham McNeill
But then Svarfell the helmsman, curse his mighty shoulder, centered the rudder to right the ship.
And, sadly, Olaf had lived.
Anthony Reynolds
“Good. He is my brother, by oath. My wife would be angry if I had let him get killed.”
“What’s going on?”
Graham McNeill
Olaf grinned, and his grim countenance vanished like snow before the summer.
“You swear it?”
“I swear it,” promised Sejuani. “But to answer your first question, Viljalmr will take it as an ill-omen that the tribe’s leader returns with nothing to show for her hunt.”
Michael Luo
A familiar face stands by the entrance.
“Still awake?” Olber says.
“I'm going for a walk.
Jared Rosen
Rayla Heide
...Hirin told the fortune of a witch doctor shrouded in veils, receiving a copper for her troubles.
Jared Rosen
A smuggler’s port, or maybe a stopoff for fishing ships from Bilgewater? Meir could catch a boat, start over again in the Serpent Isles, and then—
“Stop thinking,” threatens the broken-faced man.