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Chapters (53)
  1. Front Cover
  2. Letter from the Author
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. • One •
  7. • Two •
  8. • Three •
  9. • Four •
  10. • Five •
  11. • Six •
  12. • Seven •
  13. • Eight •
  14. • Nine •
  15. • Ten •
  16. • Eleven •
  17. • Twelve •
  18. • Thirteen •
  19. • Fourteen •
  20. • Fifteen •
  21. • Sixteen •
  22. • Seventeen •
  23. • Eighteen •
  24. • Nineteen •
  25. • Twenty •
  26. • Twenty-One •
  27. • Twenty-Two •
  28. • Twenty-Three •
  29. • Twenty-Four •
  30. • Twenty-Five •
  31. • Twenty-Six •
  32. • Twenty-Seven •
  33. • Twenty-Eight •
  34. • Twenty-Nine •
  35. • Thirty •
  36. • Thirty-One •
  37. • Thirty-Two •
  38. • Thirty-Three •
  39. • Thirty-Four •
  40. • Thirty-Five •
  41. • Thirty-Six •
  42. • Thirty-Seven •
  43. • Thirty-Eight •
  44. • ∞ •
  45. • Thirty-Nine •
  46. • Forty •
  47. Epilogue
  48. Acknowledgments
  49. Excerpt from Be Dazzled
  50. One
  51. Two
  52. About the Author
  53. Back Cover

Sophia blinked rapidly, seized by an inner storm that sent another ripple through the reverie. It washed over the city in fractious echoes. The airships looming over the plaza bobbed dangerously, as through magnetized. Their cannons swung toward Kane, Adeline, and Sophia, electric energy crackling in their barrels.

This was it. This was how Sophia’s mind would murder her own brother. Revenge, for all the lies he’d fed her and all the mistruths he’d forced her to live within. It was a just and horrible fate, but it would kill Sophia, too, and Kane couldn’t allow that.

The cannons fired. Kane fired back. He flung his hands toward the assault, releasing a pure and singular hope, a formless yet torrential explosion of energy. He felt the etherea rip from him like rocket fire, then pushed himself to give more. To give everything he had.

Just as the ethereal blast was set to collide with the fleet, it hit something. A shield that had been waiting there to protect him.

Ursula’s shield, there all along.

She must’ve been close. There wasn’t time to look because suddenly, Kane was facing his own attack as it reverberated back at him, crushing him in a prismatic riot that swept over Adeline and Sophia. They screamed, and the reverie screamed with them.

Then, there was only the rising, discordant whisper of the charms as they began to sing the song of their waking worlds.

• Thirty-Two •

Polychromatic

When the ringing finally stopped, Kane lay beneath drifts of blue steam and lemony sunlight. Dawn had surged over Everest all at once.

He sat up in the center of a scorched crater the size of a tennis court. Water gushed from snapped pipes jutting from the earth, filling the crater with hissing pools. His whole body was one giant ache, blood gathering in his eyebrows and turning his eyelashes sticky.

Find Sophia. Save Sophia.

Kane tore through the rising tide, still dizzy. A moment later Adeline punched up through a turbid pool, sputtering and gasping, her ruined dress clinging to her like a second skin. She grasped for Kane, and he heaved her up.

“Sophia!” Kane shouted. “Sophia!”

Adeline wrenched him around. “There!”

Sophia was hunched at the top of the craters’ edge. Kane stumbled up the steaming walls, with no regard to the new blisters that kissed his palms. Reaching her—seeing her—he halted.

Sophia faced the city, her whole body an expression of awe.

Kane turned.

Sophia’s reverie was gone. In its place was a maddening, kaleidoscopic chaos. Six reveries, combined. Everest, and the five charms Kane had awakened.