), For those of you who don’t know the Captive Prince series is about a Prince, Damianos of Akielos, Damen for short who gets taken prisoner by his brother and sent as a slave to the Prince of Vere, who is blonde bombshell Laurent. Pressing his left hand to his shoulder, he pushed away from the wall and came forward. Despite their temperamental relationship, he has a particular soft spot for Nicaise and all other slaves.
What he imagined between Prince and slave stripped it of all the subtleties of surrender. ‘What else did my uncle tell you I’d say?’. ‘That was also a promise.’, When it was done, he found himself pausing, his hand on the doorframe to catch his breath. Damen’s men were the bait.
This was not going to be dignified.
The short red cape was pinned to his shoulder by the golden lion. He knew how negligible a threat he presented to Govart, even on a day when he wasn’t swaying. The first book begins in the slave baths in Akielos. ‘You betrayed our Prince.’ And then, as though he almost couldn’t bear to say it, ‘You had him—’. Govart staggered and went down. Since the age of thirteen, there had been no rescuer, for his brother was dead. I can only surmise, despite a truly staggering array of evidence to the contrary, that there is still some rationality left on the Council. Nikandros knelt before him, his army knelt before him. Thrashing wounded horses screamed louder than the screams of men. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Captive Prince is dedicated to all the original readers and supporters of the story.
Played for laughs in the third book, when. Damen’s sword sheared the air in its unstoppable arc and cleaved the man in the crowned helm in two.
His eyes closed. Theomedes had passed it on to Damen on his seventeenth birthday to mark him as heir. Change ). Twice.
‘You—’ Makedon’s words echoed the unspoken question in Nikandros’s eyes that no man would ever say aloud to his King. There was a problem loading your book clubs.
He gave me command of his fort and his troops, an act of trust for an Akielon he had no reason to elevate. ‘I always wondered what it was you had on him,’ Laurent said. Throbbing at the base of his skull let him know he had been hit over the head. The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air (2)), Shadow and Bone (Grisha Trilogy) [Assorted Cover image], Prince's Gambit (The Captive Prince Trilogy), Captive Prince (The Captive Prince Trilogy), The Summer Palace and Other Stories: A Captive Prince Short Story Collection, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game) (Volume 1), The King's Men (All for the Game) (Volume 3), The Raven King (All for the Game) (Volume 2). I lit the ekthanos and made the long walk at dawn when I thought you gone.’ Nikandros spoke still partly in wonder as he rose. He was aware of the return of his critical faculties, in place of which up to now had been the tenacious adherence to a single idea. The closer they came to Charcy, the more obvious it was to the Akielon generals how bad the ground was. There was no Prince Damianos.
Damen’s flush changed in quality. As Damen entered the small antechamber, the Akielon guards took hold of their two prisoners and thrust them roughly to the ground. The outcome of his brief excursion into freedom was inevitable. Damen’s sword hit armour, hit flesh; he sought out centres of power and broke them, stopping formations before they began.
Behind him, Straton’s distaste looked like nausea.
‘Damianos?’. He couldn’t think about what followed, all he could do was keep to his promise. Friends. The air was laden with tense expectation, and the high-strung, raw mood that came before battle.